Archetypes

Question 1

Gothic Hero

Answer 1

There is always the protagonist, usually isolated either voluntarily or involuntarily

Question 2

Villain

Answer 2

There is the villain, who is the epitome of evil, either by his own fall from grace, or by some implicit malevolence

Question 3

The Wanderer

Answer 3

Found in many Gothic tales, he is the epitome of isolation as he wanders the earth in perpetual exile, usually a form of divine punishment

Question 4

The Shadow

Answer 4

The unconscious part of the personality containing the darker characteristics of our psyche that we do not want to recognize as our own

Question 5

How does the Shadow appear in dreams?

Answer 5

As a dark figure of the same sex as the dreamer

Question 6

How does the Shadow appear in literature?

Answer 6

Some kind of monster, especially one that is partly human

Question 7

The Doppelganger Effect

Answer 7

The idea that a living person has a ghostly double haunting him