The New Hope Archetypes Analysis

Light Sabers: The New Hope For Archetypes
The popular film from 1977 known as Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope written and directed by George Lucas, there are many uses of archetypes, which include use of the colors blue and green in light sabers, and the color gold in the character, Luke Skywalker’s, clothing at the end of the movie. The use of these colors throughout the movie help to show the heroic cycle of Luke Skywalker by bringing out the changes he goes through from his purity, to his rebirth, and then finally when Luke gains wisdom from his journey.
One of the best examples of an archetype from the movie is the color of the blue light saber that Luke uses. Luke uses the blue lightsaber in one of his battles, which represents his

positivity that he will finish the battle and win. The color blue as an archetype represents positivity, security, and tranquility. Because of the meanings of the color blue as an archetype, Luke’s use of the blue light saber shows his beginning. He starts out peaceful and tranquil, but slowly moves into a different form. This explains this in the heroic cycle because it is much like the orientation, or the hero’s beginning. Since the hero normally starts and ends in around the same place, it is safe to say that blue represents Luke’s orientation and the color gold, which is very similar to blue as an archetype, represents Luke’s reorientation.
With this in mind, the light saber colors also represent the disorientation phase of the heroic cycle with the color green as an archetype. In the film, Luke is battling someone using a green lightsaber. Since the color green as an archetype means rebirth, this is an example of reorientation because it is as if Luke is fighting his changes. He is using his blue light saber, representing his past self, against a green light saber, representing the transition into his new self, which combines the two to create a whole new Luke Skywalker resulting in him winning the battle.
Gold is often thought of the color of winners with wisdom, just like how Luke Skywalker wears golden clothing while receiving a gold medal for his tribute to the star wars. When Luke wears the color of gold towards the end of the movie, it shows that Luke has gone through orientation, disorientation, and then reorients into a wiser person than who he was during the orientation. The color gold as an archetype is meant to show wisdom, which in this case, is showing the wisdom that Luke gained on his heroic journey. This also shows the ending of Luke’s heroic cycle because it is as if the movie is tying the ending to the knowledge Luke gained.
The film Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope written and directed by George Lucas takes viewers through the heroic cycle with the character Luke Skywalker. Luke stumbles across many archetypes along the way without realizing it, including many colors like the blue and green light sabers along with the gold clothing he wears at the end of his journey. These colors represent the three main phases of the heroic cycle that Luke goes through, orientation, disorientation, and reorientation, and also how Luke changes throughout the movie from a tranquil blue to a rebirth of green to a very wise gold. As it can be seen, there are many archetypes found in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope.