How Is Edmund An Archetypal Hero

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What would you do if you saw a black object in the sky? Would you dismiss it? Think it was just a cloud? Now let me ask you, what if you were looking from the perspective of that. “Cloud”? This is what happened to Edmund when he was on the Spearwa ship in The Coming of Dragons. He didn’t dismiss it from his mind. Would you? This is what an archetypal hero would do which leads me to believe that in The Coming of Dragons, Elspeth and Edmund(the main characters) are both similar and different to the archetypal characteristics found in books and mythology because of the fact that Elspeth and Edmund have special weapons, an initiating event and they are mighty warriors. But they also do not have any unusual birth circumstances, an epic quest or help from people with special powers.


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They do not have any unusual birth circumstances, for example. Edmund was born the son of a king.’Edmund wondered how long it would take for news of the shipwreck to reach his father’s kingdom fifty leagues away(15).’ Nothing unusual there, and Elspeth is merely a daughter of a sailor. Also, they do not have any partners with special abilities or in a place of power. They do have a partner, Cluaran, but he is only a huntsman that is a friend of Aagard. Finally, they do not truly have an epic quest because Aagard tells them to slay the dragon but Elspeth and Edmund never agree and they go on their own. Although they do meet orgim and defeat them they never agreed to do that specifically.


So in conclusion, we have figured out that Elspeth and Edmund can be like an archetypal hero but they also can differ from an archetypal hero. Although they do have the characteristics of a mighty warrior, they have an initiating event and special weapons/abilities. But they do not have any unusual birth circumstances, help from people with special powers or a true epic

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