1. Tuesday, April 3, 2012
What does it take? Activity
Notes

2. What makes a “good” teacher?

3. “For we have not even to risk the adventure alone, for the heroes of all time have gone before us...” ― Joseph Campbell

4. Archetype
ar·che·type (ärk-tp) n. 1. An original model or type after which other similar things are patterned; a prototype: "'Frankenstein' 'Dracula' 'Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde' the archetypes that have influenced all subsequent horror stories" (New York Times). 2. An ideal example of a type; quintessence: an archetype of the successful entrepreneur. 3. In Jungian psychology, an inherited pattern of thought or symbolic imagery derived from the past collective experience and present in the individual unconscious.

5. Background:
Psychologist (A person trained and educated to perform psychological research, testing, and therapy) Carl Jung and scholar Joseph Campbell spread the idea of archetypes. They did not create the concept.
There are repeating patters of character types, symbols, relationships, and situations in stories across time periods.

6. Background:
For example, each culture has a creation myth, and history repeats itself.
Archetypes are common character types, symbols and relationships that appear often in stories (new and old). Archetypes help us to understand the purpose/function of characters in a story.

7. Background:
Archetypes are like masks that the characters wear at different points of the story.
We will focus on 7: hero, mentor, herald, threshold guardian, shapeshifter, trickster, and shadow.

8. Your mission:
In small groups of four, identify the qualities/characteristics that your archetype commonly has in the story-whatever that may be.
Create a poster and label these qualities
or characteristics.
Add any other notes that your classmates should know. You are the expert, so teach them!
You will share these notes with the class.

9. What makes a (insert archetype)?

10. Qualities/Characteristics:
Hero
Qualities/Characteristics:
Selfless; self-sacrifice
Easily identified with; everyman
Seven different types
Types/Examples:
Willing: King Arthur, Hercules
Unwilling: Shrek
Cynical Anti-Hero: Gollum, Gatsby, Captain Jack Sparrow
Tragic Anti-Hero: Hamlet
Group Oriented: William Wallace
Lone Hero: Indiana Jones
Catalyst Hero: Superman

11. Qualities/Characteristics:
Mentor
Qualities/Characteristics:
Loyal friend, wise adviser, teacher, guardian
Connected to all things; older
Acts as the hero’s conscience
May be what the hero could become
2 responsibilities: teaching and gift giving
Types/Examples:
Dark mentor: opposite of heroic values
Fallen mentor: has trouble w/ own heroic journey
Continuing mentor: recurring characters in a series of stories
Multiple mentors: each teaches a new skill to the hero
Comic mentor: advising sidekick
Shaman: aids the Hero in seeking a guiding vision to help on the journey.

12. Qualities/Characteristics:
Herald/Harbinger
Qualities/Characteristics:
Gives a challenge or announces the coming of change.
Can be a chance or planned meeting with the hero.
Often represented by an animal
Compels the Hero to answer the Call to Adventure*
Can be Hero’s inner knowledge that change is needed or a feeling of restlessness
Types/Examples:
Negative: a Shadow or Threshold Guardian (issuing a challenge or trying to trick the Hero)
Positive: the mentor in disguise
Neutral: an Ally or Threshold Guardian (Hero has found his/her own way to the 1st Threshold)

13. Qualities/Characteristics:
Threshold Guardian
Qualities/Characteristics:
A menacing face to the Hero, but can be overcome or turn into an ally
Not the villain, but a lesser thug or henchman hired to guard the chief’s headquarters
Placed to test the Hero’s willingness and skill.
Types/Examples:
Not always characters
May represent obstacles (bad weather, bad luck, prejudice, oppression)
Can be the Hero’s internal demons (emotional scars, vices, dependencies, self-limitations)
Fully evolved Hero can learn to feel compassion for his enemies rather than just destroy them.

14. Qualities/Characteristics:
Shapeshifter
Qualities/Characteristics:
Can be confused w/ Trickster
Main job = lure the Hero to his/her doom or reward.
In some stories the hero has to figure out which side he or she is dealing with
Often begins life as a Threshold Guardian.
Types/Examples:
Changes form
Often the Hero’s love interest whom the Hero doesn’t understand
Sincerity and loyalty is called into question
Characters out for blood who may try to murder the Hero
Ally or enemy label revealed at the end of story

15. Qualities/Characteristics:
Trickster/Fool
Qualities/Characteristics:
Differs from Shapeshifter in that it is the comic aspect of story
Often begins life as a Threshold Guardian.
Types/Examples:
Personification of world’s chaos w/ no purpose
May or may not work with the Hero or Shadow
May have own skewed agenda

16. Qualities/Characteristics:
Shadow
Qualities/Characteristics:
Represents the energy of the dark side, the unexpressed, unrealized, or rejected aspects of something
In direct conflict with the Hero whose goal it is to destroy
Types/Examples:
External shadows (Villains) must be destroyed
Internal shadows must be acknowledged
Mirror and personify the traits the Hero refuses to acknowledge are within himself/herself
A Mentor may act as a Shadow to teach the Hero a lesson
Any character can be a shadow, but only the character whose motivations are in direct conflict with the Hero’s is the Villain

17. Let’s use a movie example: Finding Nemo

18. Let’s use a movie example: Finding Nemo
Hero:

19. Let’s use a movie example: Finding Nemo
Hero: Marlin

20. Let’s use a movie example: Finding Nemo
Mentor:

21. Let’s use a movie example: Finding Nemo
Mentor: Crush (sea turtle)

22. Let’s use a movie example: Finding Nemo
Herald: Nemo starting school

23. Let’s use a movie example: Finding Nemo
Threshold Guardian:

24. Let’s use a movie example: Finding Nemo
Threshold Guardian: Bruce, Anchor, & Chum (sharks) among other obstacles.

25. Let’s use a movie example: Finding Nemo
Shapeshifter: Ocean (?)

26. Let’s use a movie example: Finding Nemo
Trickster:

27. Let’s use a movie example: Finding Nemo
Trickster: Dory

28. Let’s use a movie example: Finding Nemo
Shadow:

29. Let’s use a movie example: Finding Nemo
Shadow: separation from son; dentist, scuba-diver

30. Let’s use a movie example: Finding Nemo
Hero: Marlin
Mentor: Crush (sea turtle)
Herald: Nemo starting school
Threshold Guardian: Bruce, Anchor, & Chum (sharks)
Shapeshifter: Ocean (?)
Trickster: Dory
Shadow: separation from son; dentist, scuba-diver
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