1. The Literature Based Research Paper

2. Archetypes & Stereotypes
The Literature Based Research Paper

3. The Assignment . . .
Choose an archetype from Hall’s work and trace its development from the 17th century in Shakespeare’s Hamlet through literature and media of the modern era. Discuss how your archetype is illustrated both in Shakespeare’s play and in contemporary sources. Finally, analyze how the archetype has adapted or how society’s perception of it has altered and what this alteration implies about our cultural values.

4. Everything must be fiction!
You must address whether or not the archetype stays the same or changes!
Trickiest piece about this essay: The Scholarly Source!!!
Lots of choices here

6. Remember . . .
What the character does is not the defining element. The defining element is WHY the character does what he does. 
“Any archetype can do anything –  the question will always be why.”
 Archetypes are not stereotypes; they are not cookie cutters. They can be considered a framework, or even better, a lump of clay of a particular color and consistency.  

7. What needs to be in your thesis?
Name the archetype
The Busy Body The True Friend
Changed/Stayed the Same
Media
From seventeenth century to Today