Targets for Today:
I can understand more about the Hero's Journey and archetypal characters.
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Today’s Agenda for Wednesday, March 6, 2019:
1. Characters in The Hero's Journey
March 6 -- Archetypal Characters in The Hero's Journey
Archetypes
He or she is a character who predominantly exhibits goodness, and struggles against evil in order to restore harmony and justice to society. If Malfoy were our main character, would we sympathize with him? growth, change – action -- character flaw – biggest weakness (could be fear) sacrifice --
(example, Harry willing to die for the greater good)
Mentor – often a wise old man or woman (Dumbledore and Hagrid) --Teaching gift-giving (light-sabre) -- motivating the hero – quelling fear, kick in the pants, etc. can turn out to be a villain -- a shape-shifter
Threshold Guardian
obstacles
testing the Hero
(Dursley letters, purpose – to test the hero)
Herald
issues the challenge
announce a coming change, that all is not well
provides motivation to Hero
person or object
Shape-shifter --
not what he or she appears to be (Snape?)
“Real” self-revealed can force change
good or evil, can be any character
Shadow
the villain
tests the hero’s true abilities
forces Hero to rise to the challenge
often appear beautiful, elegant, or good (Shapeshifter)
Trickster
balances out the drama with a little laughter
brings things into perspective
The Mother Figure -- can be nurturing or injuring
The Innocent Youth (may be the hero at the beginning)
The Doppleganger is a duplicate or shadow of a character,
which represents the evil side of his personality. The Scapegoat takes the blame for everything bad that happens. The Sidekick may be a trickster or a shape-shifter or a damsel or . . . The Love Interest -- Usually also one of the other character types. Annette Lyon https://literarydevices.net/archetype/ 2. We watched part of Hercules -- to 46:28 and through slide 10 on the Hero's Journey 3. Students received a notes page for their own movie monomyth/hero's journey. The story in myth: https://www.ancient.eu/article/733/the-life-of-hercules-in-myth--legend/ |
If You Were Absent:
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Vocabulary:
boon -- a thing that is helpful or beneficial.
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Help and Enrichment
Some lit-theories classify archetypes by the role/purpose the character inhabits for the story. These classes are: Protagonist, Antagonist, Reason (Mr. Spock), Emotion (McCoy), Sidekick (may be a kid, comic relief, the damsel in distress, bumbling, competent, etc, Skeptic, Guardian, (also called mentor -- Mentor was Telemachus' elderly advisor in The Odyssey,) and Contagonist (the character who knows the hero's dark side better than the hero himself — and is determined to make sure the hero sees it, as well.) |
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