ous status quo. What this proves is
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that people in ancient Greece were accustomed and used to basic stories that all follow the same layout. Ferris Bueller's Day Off follows the cycle, but changes a few areas. Of course there is the ordinary world of their Chicago suburb hometown and the special world of the city of Chicago, but those are the two most prominent monomyth cycle areas in the story and there is not a lot else. Most of the changes come in the form of, as I stated earlier, Ferris being many different archetypes; therefore, Ferris cannot receive help from the different archetypes like the mentor, as he is the mentor. During the opening of the movie, Ferris explains to the audience how and why to skip school,
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“FERRIS: The key to faking out the parents is the clammy hands.
It’s a good non-specific symptom. I’m a big believer in it. A lot of people will tell you that a good phony fever is a deadlock, but, uh, you get a nervous mother, you could wind up in a doctor’s office. That’s worse than school… Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in awhile, you could miss it.” (Hughes) This scene would typically be the mentor giving the advice to the protagonist, but instead Ferris is talking to the audience. Because Ferris is the mentor, he is not able to receive any advice, which skips a major part of the cycle. The monomyth cycle is also supposed to change the protagonist when he gets back to status quo at the end of the story, but this isn’t the case for Ferris. From the beginning to the end he is a rebellious, sometimes selfish, live in the moment teenager who will dance in a parade in front of thousands and steal a Ferrari. Even after the fall of Cameron becoming mute because of the evidence that they stole his father's Ferrari, Ferris’s personality does not change at all. If we were to look at the story from Cameron's point of view this would be much different, as his development follows the monomyth cycle closely, but we don’t focus on him throughout the …show more content…
movie. The slight changes in the cycle during the movie prove Hickerson 6 that during this time we desired a different type of story, but we were not ready to abandon the cycle completely.
Although the movie doesn’t follow the cycle totally, it fails in comparison to Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, which by far is the most unique of the three stories plot wise. While throughout the story you will see some aspects of the cycle, this is the life story of Elphaba, from her birth to her death. Because at the beginning of the story she is not alive and at the end of the story she dies, there is no status quo, or ordinary world at the beginning of the story to return to at the end. After the beginning of the story all of Oz is the special world that Elphaba has to explore, and even when Elphaba does return to her birthplace in Munchkinland near the end of the novel it is in no way the way she left it. A woman who lives there has a maid who is falling in love with a woodcutter, and the maid might quit her job to be with him. She comes to Elphaba's sister Nessarose, who is now the highest ranking official in Munchkinland, and asks for help, “‘I can give you two Sheep and a Cow,’ said the woman… ‘I might bewitch his axe and let it slip,’ said Nessarose thoughtfully, ‘just enough perhaps to cut off his arm.’” (Maguire 314) The woman asks her to hurt the woodcutter so severely that the maid will not be attracted to him anymore and she will continue working. Of course a cruel leader like Nessarose would never help a citizen out of
the goodness of her heart, so she agrees to bewitch the axe and chop the woodcutters arm off for two Sheep and a Cow. In this world, Animals are different from animals. Animals(with a capital letter) resemble any other animal but talk and interact with others as humans. What they are doing is essentially trading three slaves for her to cut a man's arm off. Clearly from this situation alone you can tell that Elphaba's birthplace has drastically changed since she was there. Even after Elphaba is killed by Dorothy, all of Oz remains in turmoil, Munchkinland Hickerson 7 is teetering on the verge of a civil war, and Oz has no official government. This proves that the story has no status quo and also doesn’t have other components of the monomyth cycle, which proves that in present day we are creating stories that don’t follow the cycle nearly as much as we did. The Odyssey’s major plot points are all on the monomyth cycle, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off has some aspects of the cycle, and Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West nearly abandons the cycle altogether. With this evidence it is very safe to say that stories plots are becoming much more original, and are less likely to follow the monomyth cycle. Audiences around the world have been becoming bored with the same stories being told repeatedly, and storytellers are taking notice. The typical hero versus villain story is changing into a more complex tale of anti heroes, and we are seeing the monomyth cycle being used a decreasing amount. The world is becoming smarter, and The Odyssey, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, and Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West perfectly demonstrates that as we advance as a society, we are becoming interested in other types of characters and stories rather than the typical monomyth cycle. Works Cited Maguire, Gregory. Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West. ReganBooks, 28 Sept. 1995. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. Directed by John Hughes, Paramount Pictures, 11 June 1986. Homer. The Odyssey. “McDougal Littell Literature” Grade 9-orange level. Evanston, Illinois, 1983
Glenda starts to sing and invites all the munchkins to come out and meet Dorothy, who has save them from their shadow, the wicket witch of the east. Glenda, after welcoming Dorothy, points to an area that has caused excitement in this new land; Dorothy’s house has landed on and killed a figure whose feet can be seen from beneath the house. This was the wicked witch of the east, who has terrorized the land, the shadow, the villain, the evil one, and she is now dead. The Shadow archetype is a negative figure, representing things we don 't like and would like to eliminate. The shadow often takes the form of the antagonist in a story.” Ms. Gulch in Dorothy’s ordinary world is a person she wanted to be rid of. The only difference in the adventure
A hero is one that separates from their ordinary world, using their extraordinary skill or ability along the way, and sacrifices themselves for the sake of a journey or quest. Throughout the course of “Wreck it Ralph,” the audience watches the protagonist, a video game character named Ralph, morph from a greedy “bad-guy” who wants all the glory, into a hero prepared to sacrifice himself for the good of a world that isn’t even his. This transition, combined with the good deeds that Ralph had done throughout the movie proves him to be an ideal epic hero.
Life is something that we all have. We all have it differently and live it the way we want to live. Some people are more daring and adventurous than others and some people are sitting at home and reading a good book. Life gives us different paths and we learn new things, make mistakes, and learn from them. The more we learn, the less innocent we are. This is called an innocence to experience archetype, where is a loss of innocence which leads to experience. The book Paper Towns written by John Green shows this archetype through the main character, Quentin. Quentin Jacobsen is taken on an adventure by his love and neighbour, Margo Roth Spiegelman based on the clues that she has left behind. Quentin starts out as a “concerned for college with a perfect attendance” kind of person who goes on a journey and learns about things that he has never heard of, which is his loss of innocence who at the
Breakfast Club film contained a wide variety of behavior and stereotypes. Each person had their on personality and taste at the beginning of the film. I believe that communication played the biggest part in the movie. It shows the way that people from totally different backgrounds can communicate and even agree on issues. The various types of communication and behaviors within the film will be discussed.
In The Breakfast Club, John Bender shows many signs similar to those discussed in the Psychoanalytic approach. For instance, Bender shows signs repressed memories and suppressed sexual thoughts. Bender finds it difficult to respect Vice Principal Vernon because of the physical abuse he endured from his father. The abuse he endured created a sense of disrespect for other men whom try to gain authority over him. The mental abuse within the Bender household gave Bender an excuse for not sympathizing with the other students. He does not care what they think or say about him.
The Breakfast Club demonstrates the interpersonal concepts “I-It” and “I-Thou” as it follows students whose immediate reaction is to treat each other as nothing more than the stereotypical person their titles assume them to be; however, as the film progresses and the characters begin to develop friendships, the characters abandon the stereotypes and begin to look at each other as individuals who have unique personalities and stories.
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.
Steve Jobs once said, during a commencement speech at Stanford, “Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice” (Goodreads). Every single person on earth is a unique individual with their own thoughts and actions. In life every person goes through a stage of growth and development, both mentally and physically, where they are striving to become a more complete human being not constrained by their youth. This stage usually develops during adolescence, happening in the teenage years of one’s life. It also happens that this is occurring during the time of school when children are starting to study harder material and deal with more complex social situations.
The Breakfast Club is a coming of age classic directed by John Hughes in 1985. It showcases five students that find themselves in all day Saturday detention for various unrelated incidents. John Bender, Andrew Clark, Allison Reynolds, Brian Johnson, and Claire Standish come from extremely different lifestyles even though they attend the same high school. Their parents drop them off at the school and the characters can be immediately judged by their cars and clothing. The jock, the basketcase, the nerd, and the princess are apprehensive at first, but after smoking the criminal’s weed they come out of their shells and learn about each other. They find that detention was not an entire waste of a Saturday, but turns into the day they find themselves.
Claire Standish was known as “the princess”. She dressed in pink and acquired many material items because of her rich parents. Many students envied her life, and considered her to be stuck up and snobbish because she received whatever she wanted. Andrew Clark was known as “the athlete”. He wore a letter jacket with all of his accolades displayed and seemed to discriminate and bully kids whose social statuses were below his. This is especially apparent in his reason for the detention: bullying a fellow student in the locker room. In addition to this, both Claire and Andrew’s reference groups and family social contexts guided them to the detention that day. Andrew’s father and friends encouraged him to perform the bullying act that landed him in detention. His father was happy that Andrew was attending the detention because he believed it would give him a better reputation in the athletic world. Claire’s father allowed her to skip school one day to go shopping. It seemed that Claire’s family believed that material items and wealth was more important than school. Claire displayed this belief and landed a spot in detention. Although Claire and Andrew did not reside in the same high school cliques, their cliques were near the top of their high school hierarchy. Their cliques defined what everyone thought they wanted, but the stereotypes that surrounded these two individuals was a façade. They also discovered through the journey of the film which was the realization that everyone is the same on the inside, even though their outsides are
Social Psychology is the study of how we think and relate to other people. These psychologists focused on how the social situation influences others behavior. We see social influences everywhere we go, but might not notice it. Like when watching a movie for fun you do not notice it as much as when you are actually looking for the behaviors, like in the film The Breakfast Club. There are several examples of social psychological behaviors in the film.
Ken Kesey the author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo 's Nest, allows the reader to explore different psychoanalytic issues that plague the characters in his novel. Carl Jung disciple of Sigmund Fraud created “The Collective Unconscious” his theory based on how the mind can be easily overtaken by many outside factors from the past or present and even those that one is born with. The novel takes place in an asylum that is aimed to contain individuals that have mental issues from schizophrenia to repressed memories that are causing insanity. The nurses are seen as tyrants and actually worsens health of the patients turning some from acutes to chronics (incurable), while the patients are limited by their initial conditions or their developing conditions
The author of One Flew over the Cuckoo 's Nest, allows the reader to explore different psychoanalytic issues in literature. The ability to use works literature to learn about real world conflicts allows us to use prior knowledge to interact with these problems in reality. Ken Kesey, the author of the above novel and Carl Jung, author of “The Archetype and the Collective Unconscious” wrote how the mind can be easily overtaken by many outside factors from the past or present. The novel takes place in an asylum that is aimed to contain individuals that have a mental issue or problem. The doctors and care takers are seen as tyrants and barriers that inhibit the patients to improve their health, while the patients are limited by their initial conditions
There is a great deal of social interaction that can be used for psychological analysis in the film The Perks of Being a Wallflower directed by Stephen Chbosky. This movie holds a strong focal point regarding mental illness, coming of age, and acceptance. (Halfon, Malkovich, Smith & Chbosky, 2012) Social psychology concepts from the textbook Social Psychology and Human Nature: Brief Version will be used to describe some of the actions and cognitions of the characters. (Baumeister & Bushman, 2014) The Perks of Being a Wallflower follows the life of main character Charlie, a high school freshman who tries to find acceptance and validation of his troubles by the help of his peers. Charlie, as well as his friends, suffer from mental illness in several different ways. This movie shows how the characters overcome the fears they hold and develop into stronger individuals. The three people that Charlie interact with the most are Sam, her Step brother Patrick, and Mary Elizabeth. (Halfon,
In the media, prisons have always been depicted as a horrible place. The film, The Shawshank Redemption, is a prime example that supports the media 's suggestions about prison life. In the film we are familiarized with Andy Dufresne, who is a banker that is wrongfully convicted of murdering his wife and her lover. While trying to both remain discreet and find his prison identity, he assists Ellis Boyd 'Red ' Redding, a peddler, and Brooks Hatlen. In his attempt to fit into the rough prison subculture, Andy strategically starts a business relationship with the captain Captain Bryon Hadley and Samuel Norton. The film gives an insider 's look at various aspects of prison life. These aspects include prison culture; explicitly, guard subculture and inmate subculture.