Literary Critiscism Test - Jung (young)

Question 1

What are the 9 character archetypes

Answer 1

• The hero
• The scapegoat
• The outcast
• The devil
• Female figures (good mother, temptress, muse, unfaithful wife)
• The trickster

Question 2

What is the definition of the hero archetype?

Answer 2

• Always male
• may be born from unusual circumstances (virgin mother)
• escapes an attempt of murder against him
• returns to homeland (after a victory over an antagonist)
• marries a princess, becomes king and later dies a mysterious death or gets banished
• may involve a journey where hero has to answer riddles, find a sacred or powerful artifact, or battle superhuman creatures to save someone else
• Ex. Hercules, Prince charming

Question 3

What is the definition of the Scapegoat archetype?

Answer 3

• becomes the sacrificial victim who is put to death by the community to remove guilt of the people and restore their health and welfare (sometimes hero)
• could be an aminal but more likely human
• Ex. Minotaur, ram sacrificed to make shofar

Question 4

What is the definition of the outcast archetype?

Answer 4

• character who is thrown out of the community as punishment for a crime against it
• fate is to wander for eternity
• Ex. Elsa, Romeo, The Beast

Question 5

What is the definition of the devil archetype?

Answer 5

• personifies the principle of evil that intrudes the life of a character to tempt and destroy them (often by promising wealth or fame or knowledge in exchange for soul)
• Ex. Ursula

Question 6

What is the definition of the good mother archetype?

Answer 6

• Always female
• associated with fertility and abundance
• nurtures those around her
• Ex. fairy godmother

Question 7

Definition of the temptress archetype?

Answer 7

• Always female
• destroys the men who are attracted to her sensuality and beauty
• causes the men’s downfall
• Ex. Pamela from story in class, Sirens

Question 8

Definition of the muse archetype?

Answer 8

• Always female
• inspired the souls and minds of men
• spiritual or platonic ideal
• relationship isn’t physical instead she guides and directs and fulfils her male counterpart
• Ex. fashion designer, Woman for mona lisa

Question 9

What is the definition of the unfaithful wife archetype?

Answer 9

• Always female
• often married to a dull insensitive husband and turns to a more desirable man to be her lover
• ends with unhappy consequences
• Ex. Victoria from english story

Question 10

What is the definition of the trickster archetype?

Answer 10

• often in African american and american indian stories
• mischievous, disorderly and doesn’t have morals
• disrupts strict rule bound cultures bringing them to reminders of their less strict beginnings
• Ex. Loki, Cheshire cat

Question 11

What are the 6 Image archetypes?

Answer 11

• Colours
• Numbers
• Water
• Gardens
• Circles
• The sun

Question 12

What are examples of the colour archetype?

Answer 12

• Red: passion, sacrifice, violence
• Green: fertility, fullness of life, hope
• Blue: holiness, sadness, sanctity
• Light: hope, inspiration, enlightenment, rebirth
• Darkness: ignorance, hopelessness, death

Question 13

What are examples of the numbers archetype?

Answer 13

• 3: spirituality (holy trinity)
• 4: four seasons (cycle of life), four elements
• 3+4 = 7: a powerful product that is perfect whole and complete

Question 14

What are examples of the water archetype?

Answer 14

• creation, birth, rebirth
• flowing water —> passage of time
• lack of water or desert —> spiritually barren state

Question 15

What is a characters shadow?

Answer 15

• a persons unconscious self that one tends to reject or ignore
• least desirable aspect of a persons personality
• usually negative

Question 16

What is a characters persona

Answer 16

• that mask we put on for the world
• maybe not be what we think of ourselves on the inside

Question 17

What is a characters anima?

Answer 17

• motivating life force of a person

Question 18

How does a person achieve individuation?

Answer 18

• through self actualisation
• discover and accept all sides of themselves

Question 19

What are examples of the gardens archetype?

Answer 19

• paradise
• state of innocence
• Ex. garden of eden

Question 20

What are examples of the circles archetype?

Answer 20

• lack of beginnings or endings
• state of wholeness and union

Question 21

what are examples of the sun archetype?

Answer 21

• passage of time
• rising —> beginning
• setting —> death/ending
• full presence —> enlightenment or radiant knowledge

Question 22

What are the 3 situational archetypes?

Answer 22

• the quest
• death and rebirth
• initiation

Question 23

What are examples of the quest archetype?

Answer 23

• persued by a hero
• involves a difficult search for a magic or holy item that will return fertility and abundance to a desolate state
• often has the need to preform a nearly impossible task so that all will be well
• includes the journey which includes a psychological and physical movement from one place or state to another
• may include descent into hell

Question 24

Death and rebirth archetype?

Answer 24

• cycle of the seasons
  rebirth in the form of natural regeneration in submission to the cycles of nature
• escape from troubled life to endless paradise like before the fall into suffering

Question 25

Initiation

Answer 25

• progression from 1 stage of life to another
• from childhood to maturity
• innocence to understanding
• goes through initiation alone experiencing tests and ordeals so they can return as an adult