From the Greek word “exemplary,” Carl Jung created the word “archetypes.” Jung a Swiss psychiatrist, extended on the idea of something that frequently occurs in a movie or novel which stimulates a strong unconsciousness. Jung said archetypes are in all everyone, including characters. In The Karate Kid from 1984, archetypes arise for the entirety of the movie. Daniel LaRusso, a boy who is forced to move to California from New Jersey has trouble fitting in. The amount of archetypes that emerge throughout the whole movie helps make The Karate Kid, the great movie it is today.
Taking place in the mid 1980’s, Daniel finds himself in a difficult move all the way across the country with his mom, Lucille. Daniel, letting out his anger by
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kicking open the apartment plaza door, the door accidently kicks it right into another teenager. The teenager takes his apology and realizes it was an accident and invites Daniel to a party at the beach later that night. Before the party, Daniel’s mom wanted him to go find the maintenance man, Mr. Miyagi, and have him fix the kitchen faucet. The party was going great, he met a girl he likes, Ali, but eventually gets into a tussle with her ex-boyfriend, Johnny, who eventually broke her radio for no reason. Johnny with a few other friends, his “hunting group of companions,” who are rarely not together, came in riding on dirt bikes. Ali, a “temptress” and “damsel in distress” leads to Daniel getting his butt whooped instead of being the knight in shining armor. Ali, needs someone to help her be safe from Johnny’s childish acts. Daniel ended up with a black eye and soar rest of the body and Johnny left with a bloody nose. After Daniel got in the fight with Johnny, he was down on the ground and nobody helped him up, not even his new friends. From that moment on, he was an archetypical “outcast.” Daniel’s mother, a caring one, just like an “earth mother” freaks out when she sees Daniel’s face, but Daniel blames the black eye from his bike. The next day, Daniel gets kicked off of the soccer team, for getting in another melee with one of Johnny’s goons. Riding home one day, Daniel is forced off the road while riding his bike Johnny and his goons, and Daniel falls down the hill. He ends up with a cut head and many bumps and bruises. When Daniel is able to get back home, he throws his bike in the dumpster while Daniel is yelling at his caring mother for making him come to California, Lucille starts freaking out about his face. When Daniel got back from school one day, the day of the Halloween party, his bike was sitting all pretty in front of his apartment door. When Daniel, goes to thank Mr. Miyagi for fixing his bike, Mr. Miyagi helps Daniel learn to concentrate by cutting Bonsai trees. Not wanting to go to the Halloween party, Mr. Miyagi gives Daniel a nudge and he goes. Eventually, Mr. Miyagi becomes Daniel’s mentor. He went dressed as a shower because he wanted to be invisible. Since Daniel though he was invisible, he decided to attempt to prank Johnny. That didn’t workout so well. Instead, Daniel was chased by Johnny and the rest of his childish friends. After Daniel takes a rough beating, out of nowhere, Mr. Miyagi comes and saves the day, and nurses Daniel back to consciousness. Since Daniel wanted to learn karate, Mr. Miyagi agrees to do so. So, Daniel and his new mentor go to the gym where Johnny and his black-belt friends train and make a deal with Sensei Kreese. Johnny and his friends cannot touch Daniel until the karate tournament in December. Sensei Kreese, a mentor to Johnny is also a “devil figure,” a mean antagonist. The karate tournament will be the first “battle of good vs. evil.” Before Mr.
Miyagi, started to train Daniel, they made a deal, Mr. Miyagi says he will train him, but Daniel cannot ask questions about training methods. The first day of training is “wax on, wax off.” Daniel had to wax many cars as his first day of training. Forgetting about his first day of training, he finally went on a date with Ali to Golf N’ Stuff. Daniel’s mom was the chauffeur and Ali’s parents do not approve of Daniel because he his from the poor part of town, but they go on the date anyway. After Daniel’s next two trainings, sand the floor and paint the fence, Daniel starts to become suspicious. His next training was to paint the house. After completing of all the “chores” Daniel was going to do, he confronted Mr. Miyagi. Daniel was shown that the household chores were defensive strategies. Daniel is inching closer and closer to the end of his “initiation,” the whole point of the movie. Daniel had to endure hard training to reach his ultimate goal of beating Johnny. Daniel next had to learn balance, Mr. Miyagi had Daniel stand on the edge of the boat and practice his defensive moves. Daniel had another date with Ali planned, but it did not happen because Johnny rudely kissed Ali at a country club dance while Daniel was watching. Johnny got a nice punch to the face from Ali, but Daniel was embarrassed because he ran into a waiter and made a mess of himself and the
food. The anniversary of the death of Mr. Miyagi’s wife, Mr. Miyagi was acted all crazy and drunk, so when Mr. Miyagi passed out, Daniel repaid one of the many favors by putting Mr. Miyagi to bed. Daniel got a few birthday presents from Mr. Miyagi. He finally learned how to punch after high anticipation, a birthday cake, a karategi made by Mrs. Miyagi for his tournament and one of the cars he waxed along with a license. After realizing what time it was, he went to Golf N’ Stuff, and showed off his license and new car to Ali. Not impressed, but they eventually go outside and makeup and Daniel kisses her, he finally got his “temptress!” Now time for the highly anticipated tournament! No belt for Daniel, but his mentor finds a way to steal the referee’s black belt. After a small altercation with some people from Sensi Kreese’s Dojo, he was ready to win. Daniel was nervous in the first match, but he still won after gaining his confidence. Daniel wins his second, third, and fourth matches and gets a minor injury to his midsection in the fourth match. Sensei Kreese, the devil figure he is, tells Daniel’s opponent to sweep his leg and get disqualified. The student listens and Daniel wins the match, but does not think he can continue. With only fifteen minutes to recover, he asks Mr. Miyagi to an ancient Japanese medical technique to heal him. After being healed, Daniel comes back and wins the championship. The point to win the match, Daniel had to use a crane technique because Johnny swept his bad leg again before. After he wins, Johnny hands him the trophy. The Karate Kid provided many archetypes which makes it a big-screen favorite. The main characters played a specific role regarding the archetypes that were given to them. Daniel, the most important character exemplified the true meaning of being initiated to reaching his ultimate goal, but he could not have done that without everyone's favorite mentor, Mr. Miyagi, and his temptress Ali. The good vs. evil makes every book or movie great and definitely did in this movie. Everyone loves The Karate Kid and that is shown when they made almost $91 million in total gross sales.
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An archetype, as defined by Literary Terms, is an idea, symbol, pattern, or character type that appears repeatedly in stories from cultures worldwide, symbolizing something universal in the human experience. There are three types of archetypes: symbolic, character, and situational. In her memoir, The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls employs each archetype to capture her difficult life growing up due to her father's alcoholism and inability to hold a job. These archetypes also play a crucial role in developing the novel's theme of perseverance. The central theme of the novel is perseverance, as Jeannette and her siblings worked hard and never gave up, managing to build a better life for themselves.
archetype is very typical example of a person or a thing. Carlson’s most important characteristic
An archetype is a universal symbol. It is also a term from the criticism that accepts Jung’s idea of recurring patterns of situation, character, or symbol existing universally and instinctively in the collective unconscious of man. Archetypes come in three categories: images (symbols), characters, and situations. Feelings are provoked about a certain subject by archetypes. The use of the images of water, sunsets, and circles set the scene of the movie. Characters, including the temptress, the devil figure, and the trickster, contribute to the movie’s conflicts that the hero must overcome in order to reach his dream. However, to reach his dream, the hero must also go through many situations such as, the fall, dealing with the unhealable wound, and the task. By using archetypes in the movie, the viewer can obtain more than just the plot and better understand the true theme of the movie: to never give up on dreams.
An archetype in literature is defined as a typical example of a certain type of person. A character in a poem or play can be placed into many different archetype categories. Archetypes help a reader to gain a better understanding of who a character in the work is on the inside. This deeper insight into the character allows the reader to follow the flow of the story easier and more effectively. There are many different archetypes that can help advance the story.
Psychoanalysis is a theory that explores personality traits on the conscious and unconscious level. According to TheFreeDictionary.com, “Psychoanalysis is the most intensive form of an approach to treatment called psychodynamic therapy. Psychodynamic refers to a view of human personality that results from interactions between conscious and unconscious factors. The purpose of all forms of psychodynamic treatment is to bring unconscious mental material and processes into full consciousness so that the patient can gain more control over his or her life” (Psychoanalytic Treatment). Sigmund Freud is the founder of the Psychoanalysis Theory. He had many followers. One of those followers was Jung. As time went on, Jung’s perspective on personality
Carl Gustav Jung, “The Principle Archetypes” in The Critical Tradition: Classic Texts and Contemporary Trends, ed. David H. Richter (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1989), 666.
The Maze Runner is a 2014 mystery/science fiction film that can be viewed from an archetypal perspective. An archetype can be described as a pattern that can and is copied and recurring symbols or characters. The concept of archetypes came from Carl Jung a psychiatrist who believed that all cultures use archetypes to build stories without communicating to each other about them. Two groups of archetypes are the character and symbolic archetypes. The film The Maze Runner should be analyzed through an archetypal perspective because it has character and symbolic archetypes.
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Psychoanalyst Carl Jung suggested all humanity is innately programmed with a set of primordial images as a collective unconscious. These primordial images, which he called archetypes, are buried deep in the subconscious until a triggering event brings them to the forefront. Artists, writers, musicians and p...
Furthermore, Campbell explained such patterns by using Carl Jung's theory of the collective unconscious, which he was strongly influenced with. Psychological organs that developed through the evolution, is the idea Jung gave of archetypes (Jung 81). To him they are recurring patterns, images and ideas which all humans inherited in their unconsciousness (Volgar 23). In addition, Campbell described his theory as a reoccurring cycle of pattern consisting of three phases: Departure, Initiation and Return, which he calls The Monomyth (Campbell 28), a deep inner journey of transformation that every hero must go through in order to grow (Voytilla vii).
The great psychologist-philosopher Carl Jung was briefly a student of Freud. Because Jung felt that Freud's approach to psychoanalysis was by far too narrow, he broke off from his teachings, and made significant contributions to mythological criticism. Jung's greatest contribution was his theory of archetypes. His proposal of archetypes argues that there is one original pattern or model of all things of the same type. According to Jung, beneath the personal unconscious is a collective unconscious that is in the psychic inheritance of all humans. Jung thought of the collective unconscious as a sort of memory bank that stores images and ideas that humans have accumulated over the course of evolution. This theory of Jung's supported other theories that argues that humans are born with instincts. "Mind is not born as a tabula rasa [a clean slate]. Like the body, it has its pre-established individual definiteness; namely, forms of behaviour. They become manifest in the ever-recurring patterns of psychic functioning" (Guerin 175). It is important to realize that archetypes are not inherited ideas or patterns of thought, but rather that they are inclinations to respond in similar ways to certain stimuli (Guerin 175-178). One predominant archetype within mythological criticism is the sacrificial scapegoat. In Sophocles' play Oedipus Tyrannus, the archetype of the sacrificial scapegoat is carried out by Oedipus as he solves the impossible riddle of the sphinx, delivers Thebes from a horrible plague, and then takes his mother's hand in marriage.
The archetype of the hero is an expression of our imagination as well as a reflection of our experience. Carl Jung develops this idea in his essa...
Miyagi to learn karate he preforms several tasks. In these tasks Daniel is required to paint the house going from left to right with long strokes, he does the same but up and down with the fence, and while waxing the cars and sanding the floors he uses one hand to go clock-wise while the other goes counter-clockwise. Once Daniel finished these tasks he feels as though Mr. Miyagi is just making him work. Mr. Miyagi shows him how much he’s learned by getting Daniel to repeat the moves he used while working. Mr. Miyagi throws jabs to demonstrate that each movement Daniel used working are the fundamentals of how to block. After learning how to block Mr. Miyagi takes Daniel out to the beach and has him stand in the ocean to work on his stance. As Daniel stands in the water he is bombarded by waves, and it is his goal to stand firm against them, much like the natural bonsais of china whom stand strong and resolute under any condition. To stand firm Daniel has to grow strong roots to withstand the waves power. Blocking and Daniels stance come full circle once its time to find his balance as Mr. Miyagi takes him out in the middle of a lake and gets him to balance on the bow of the boat. Mr. Miyagi says “if balance good karate is good.”, because all karate moves must be balanced and come from a balanced form, but be strong like the roots of a
The human psyche is formed by conflict. The mind is in a constant state of figurative war – subconscious antitheses and opposites vying for control of the conscious self. Psychic cohesion relies on the resolution and balance of these opposites. In his essay On the Nature of the Psyche, Carl Jung delves into the conflict within the psychic spectrum. The most base level of the unconscious (he uses the Gnostic term “hylic” to describe it) focuses on the instinctual and the immediate, temporal world. It exists in direct contrast to the highest level, the pneumatic (another Gnostic title), a “supraconcious” wherein spirituality and intellect reign. Robertson Davies’ novel Fifth Business symbolizes this antithesis in the characters of Boy Staunton and Dunstan Ramsay. Boy represents the materialistic, sex-obsessed lower psychic realm. His attitude towards woman, guilt, and mythology illustrate the manifestation of the hylic level of the psyche. Dunstan is the direct counterpoint to Boy. Where Boy demonstrates a fixation on physical sexuality, Dunstan distances himself from any material sensuality. Where Boy only worships a capitalist god created in his image, Dunstan pursues a world of saints and spirituality. Dunstan is evidently a representation of the pneumatic complex. As the characters personify this psychic contrast, their respective failings reveal another crucial concept of the mind. When consciousness primarily exists in one specific psychic dimension, the psyche is no longer complete. The opposite half goes unrecognized. At the end of the novel, Dunstan eventually has a revelation that continues to elude Boy: establishing equilibrium betw...