Archetypes

Archetype - coined by Carl Jung, this term is used to describe universal symbols that evoke deep and sometimes unconscious responses in a reader.




Batman - Bob Kane, 1930's
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Zorro - Johnston McCulley, 1919
Alter Ego - Don Diego Vega
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Variants of Cinderella

Title: untitled – the story of Rhodopis and the Pharaoh Amasis
Date: 1 BC
Author: The Greek historian, Strabo
Region: Greece/Egypt

Title: The Maiden, the Frog, and the Chief’s Son
Date: ?
Author: oral tradition, recorded by Frank Edgars in Hausa language in 1911, translated to English by Neil Skinner in 1965
Region: West Africa


Title: Cendrillon ou la peptite pantoufle de verre
Date: 1697
Authors: Charles Perrault
Region: France



Title: Oochigeaska, (The Rough Faced Girl)
Date: collected in the 19th-century
Author: Mik’maq story teller, collected by Silas T. Rand, a Baptist missionary
Region: Hants Port, Nova Scotia

Title: Ashputtle (Aschenputtle)
Date: @ 1812 in Children’s Household Tales
Authors: Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm
Region: Germany

Title: Cinderella
Date: 1950
Authors: Walt Disney
Region: United States



Common elements: low class woman aspiring to high class marriage; death of mother; step-mother characters; evil step-sisters; weak father figures; unobtainable party/festivity; magical transformation; diminutive magical creatures; “godmother” figure who dispenses magic; time; marriage.


Other Varients –
Dracula stories


Beauty and the Beast


Maid in Manhattan


Pretty Woman