Essays on Archetype
What is an archetype? An archetype is defined in literature as, “a typical character, an action, or a situation that seems to represent universal patterns of human nature”(Literary devices). The character Oedipus in Sophocles’ Oedipus the King follows a scholarly example known as hero archetype. The hero prime example is an example associated with change...
Introduction Carl Gustav Jung (/jʊŋ/ YUUNG,[4][5] German: [kaʁl ˈjʊŋ]; 26 July 1875 – 6 June 1961) was once a Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who centred analytical psychology. Jung’s work used to be influential in the fields of psychiatry, anthropology, archaeology, literature, philosophy, and spiritual studies. Jung laboured as a lookup scientist at the well-known Burghölzli...
Hamlet is a character that is brilliantly multi-faceted, and in the world of literature, a character who possesses multiple archetypes. The most prominent archetypes Hamlet wields are his archetypal presence as a philosopher and as a persecutor. Although not quite the same as Shakespeare’s roundabout ‘scholar and soldier’, it strikes the notion that all of...