Comparing The Devil And Miss Prym And District Nine

The Comparison: The Devil and Miss Prym and District 9 When it comes to comparing the book The Devil and Miss Prym and the movie District 9, one must understand the main concepts behind each story. In both stories, the pattern of fiction that is used is based off of the choice between being good or evil. The archetype that is implemented in both stories is the archetype of each main character being considered the hero of their story. The philosophy that is used throughout each story is the philosophy of Transcendental Idealism Movement. The only way to understand how these two separate stories compare is to craftily analyze each of them.

In the book The Devil and Miss Prym, a small remote village is invaded by an outsider with the objective to find out if

In The Devil and Miss Prym, Chantal is faced with the difficult decision of either taking the gold and skipping town or telling the townspeople and letting them decide what is best. Chantal ends up not taking the gold and her consequence is that she’ll be stuck in the town for the rest of her life. In the District 9, Wikus is faced with the decision of either fighting off the MNU and letting Christopher go to the ship or trying to make it to the ship with Christopher and possibly getting them both killed. Wikus’s decision to fight off the MNU leaves him in District 9 as a complete prawn and ends his days of being a human. As he said to Christopher before his standoff with the MNU, “Go to the ship and your son Christopher, I will hold them off.” (District 9) With the pattern of fiction identified, it’s time to determine the archetype seen in each of the