The Hero Within Six Archetypes We Live By, By Carol S. Pearson

Everyone has a trait or personality that they carry that truly describes who he or she really is. Carol S. Pearson, an author of The Hero Within Six Archetypes We Live By, discusses how there is much more meaning to those traits, and they are called archetypes. These archetypes have helped numerous people understand their lives by showing them how to embrace the strength of their own archetype that lives within us whether it is the orphan, the wanderer, the warrior, and the magician. In the book, Encyclopedia of Folklore and Literature, Mary Ellen Brown and Bruce A. Rosenburg wrote, “For adherents of the historic-geographic school of folklore methodology, archetype refers to the original text of a tale-type that was created in a particular

Pearson lets us know not to give up, for such encounters are a mythic occasion calling you to the mission. In numerous myths and stories, the saints beat their experience to ascend and carry on with a rich life. Simba has a mischievous uncle and gets attracted to a canyon where stampedes of wild animals run through. Then, his uncle Scar purposely warns his brother, Mufasa, that his son was stuck in that canyon. His father therefore attempts to rescue him and successfully does it but ends up hanging on the edge of a cliff where his brother Scar stands. Scar grabbing Mufasa paws throws him into the stampede of wild animals killing him. Simba gets a quick look at his dad falling. In a touching minute, he lies comfortably within his dad's inactive body. At the start, he can hardly imagine how Mufasa is dead and demands he hold up. Before long, he acknowledges the reality of his father’s death and shouts for help before he lies underneath the paw of his dad. Scar shows up and blames him for slaughtering Mufasa. At that point, Scar controls him into suspecting that all the pride at his land will rebuke him for it, so Simba escapes the canyon. Pearson discusses that, “The Orphan’s task is to move out of innocence and denial and learn that suffering, pain, scarcity, and death are an inevitable part of life” (41). Meaning that Simba must realize that he must get through the suffering, the pain, the shortage, and even the death of

It is a call to move into another life that is not so much limiting but rather more us. The wanderer considers life to be an enterprise, symbolized by the knight, the adventurer, the cowboy or hippie who takes off, yet the drive for new frontier applies to the mind and heart and additionally the physical world. For example, Simba visits the wastelands where his father simply told him to never visit there but begins to be curious on what is over there on that side of the land and he finds the elephant graveyard is. It appears depressing or frightening just seeing the environment there. No matter what the time was it was a gloomy place. The hyenas lived there. Simba also lives in a jungle with his two companions Timon and Pumbaa. His companions begin to teach him the meaning of Hakuna Matata, which means no worries. Timon and Pumbaa offer Simba some bugs to eat and he finds it disgusting until he tries it himself. As he tries it he does not like the taste but also finds it satisfying. At this stage, he begins to accept his true self. On page 90, Pearson explains, “Thus, the Wanderer’s journey helps us free ourselves from what others will think and lets us embrace fully our own natures and our own journeys.” In other words, wanderers truly help us be our true selves along the quest that we probably did not know or what we are truly searching