Archetype原型.ppt

Archetypes Your guide to the patterns in literature. Definition of Archetype Archetype is a Greek word meaning “original pattern, or model.” In literature and art an archetype is a character, an event, a story or an image that recurs in different works, in different cultures and in different periods of time. An example of an archetype occurs in the story of “The Flood.” Many different cultures have similar stories about the reasons for and the results of a flood. Can you think of any stories or image patterns that have been repeated in movies, books, or even commercials? The Earth Belonged To Them All The archetype of “The Earth Belonged to Them All” focuses on the innocence and “Golden Age” that most cultures use in order to explain the origins of their civilization. What do you think “The Golden Age means?” When you think of the word or the color gold, what kind of images do you think of? Creation myths The God-Teacher In another archetype, “The God-Teacher,” stories show the importance of a god or gods teaching man to survive on his own. “Yet it was unthinkable that the remote all-high gods would ever come into direct contact with lowly mortals to teach them what was right or wrong…The imagination had to build a bridge to connect the human world with the unapproachable divine world. An intermediary was needed, a link between heaven and earth…Myths about the god-teacher provided this divine sanction for the rituals and traditions people lived by. Such myths assured people that all their human activities stemmed from divine instruction”(Jewkes 70). Read these myths. What is the lesson being taught here? How do these different gods go about teaching their individual lessons? Do you think these gods were successful? What do you think humans learned? The God-Teacher:Prometheus /myths/bios/promethe.html Do you think Prometheus is a hero or a victim? Why? What do you think about the punishment Zeus gave to him? Do you think that it was too