Examples Of Archetypes In The Hobbit

When I was reading the how to read literature like a professor and the hobbits the three archetypes I saw was the communion at the beginning of the book, the death and resurrection that happen to our hero through the novel, and the hero quest that was going through the entire novel.

The first archetype that I saw in the novel was communion. You probably are asking yourself, what is communion. Well, communion is when people come together and eat and drinking. So while reading the hobbit, I saw at the beginning of the story that Bilbo(our main character), Gandalf, and the thirteen dwarfs are talking about taking a journey, so when I was reading the guys are together in one room drinking beer ,eating food playing together, and

having a good time.
The next archetype that I was representing by death through some of the book. Like when the season change to autumn.to winter, which of course represents death, in this case, the death of the hobbit’s old self. This season comes along about halfway through the adventure when he finally fulfills his heroic duties and saves his friends more than once over. After bringing himself and his “crew” to their place of destination somewhat safely, Bilbo’s old self is killed, or left behind. Bilbo as his new self fights and brings victory for him and his friends. He is victorious in his search for Smaug’s treasure. Bilbo begins his return in the spring, which is symbolic of rebirth, or the birth of Bilbo’s new self. His adventure has brought out the best in his personality and himself in general, Bilbo had become a completely new person. He returns home revisiting all the things he passed during his adventure and revisiting the death of his old self, and realizing how important this all was to him.
Final the last archetype that was in the book was the hero’s quest.

Although our hero faced so many challenges throughout the whole novel the three i chose was the the trickster(Gollum) the shadow and destroyer (Smaug) and he also had help throughout the quest the mentor( Gandalf). When our hero was going through the cave he met a goblin named gollum he was the one of the trickster that the hero (Bilbo) came across when he was trying to escape the cave. The reason why Gollum is one of our trickster was because in chapter 5, he tries to beat bilbo in a riddle game so that he could eat him. he was exceptionally skillful at creating and solving riddle. Our shadow, Smaug is the main villain through the entire book from when he burn villages to when he stole gold of the dwarves and that he doesn't care for other people health and that he is cruel and only think of himself. The mentor through the book is Gandalf because he was there to save Bilbo and dwarves from being eaten by the three giant trolls, he was the one who made sure that Bilbo was a successful on the journey, and also if Gandalf wasn't there to help bilbo to attain the small sword to defeat the giant spiders of Mirkwood. Gandalf help was the key to Bilbo success on the

journey.
In conclusion, while reading how to read literature like a professor and the hobbit that the archetypes that i choose to compare is the communion when everybody was together and having good time , the resurrection and deaths that happen to the main characters, and the last one the hero quest where our hero was challenge throughout the story.