Hercules: The Use Of Archetypes In Disney Movies

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An archetype is a term that can represent universal patterns of human nature and are always the building blocks of movies and stories. These terms include many archetypes with their own properties such as characteristic, symbolic, and situational. In the 1997 film Hercules produced and animated by Disney it depicts the story of Hercules, the son of Zeus and Hera. The God of the underworld Hades poisons Hercules when he is a baby with his two incompetent sidekicks Pain and Panic turning him mortal, and leaving him on Earth. When he is sent to the temple of Zeus by his orphan parents he is greeted by his real father Zeus who tells him in order to go back to Mount Olympus and live with him he is tasked with becoming a God or by fulfilling heroic …show more content…

After that he goes down to the underworld and asks the Fates if Hercules is going to interfere with his plans of taking over Mount Olympus by releasing the creatures of nightmares called Titans used for defeating Zeus. The names of The Fates are Enyo, Deino, and Pemphredo. The Fates tell him that Zeus will fall, but if Hercules is not taken care of he will interfere and soil his plans of taking over the world. He takes action with the advice given and sends his two scapegoat servants Pain and Panic to kidnap Hercules, turn him mortal, then murder him.

As Pain and Panic are feeding baby Hercules the Mortal potion he says comically “in order for it to work he has to drink every last drop”. As the two are force feeding Hercules they hear 2 people approaching, in panic they drop the potion from the mouth of Hercules and it shatters on the ground. From the broken bottle you can see a miniscule drop of the potion secrete from a shard of glass. Even though he drank 99.9% of the potion he still retained his God-like …show more content…

As he is speaking to the statue it suddenly animates with a bolt of lightning and starts speaking to Hercules. Hercules recoils in fear and starts to run but after Zeus explains himself that he’s actually Herculeses’ father he calms down and starts to understand. He asks Zeus why he’s not on Olympus with all the other Gods and Zeus explains that he was turned mortal and mortals can’t reside on Mount Olympus. He also tells Hercules that in order to live on Mount Olympus he needs to either become a hero or God. Hercules then asks how he can become a hero and Zeus points him towards a friendly creature who also turns out to be a mentor, Philoctetes the Satyr. After Zeus gives Hercules this advice he also reunites Hercules with his pet flying horse, Pegasus, who is a major helper in his quest to become a

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