Archetypes

A. The last part of the packet that talks about what a hero goes through during a journey. I think that this has a really good connection with experiences that people have in our world. For example the “Refusal of the Call” could be about regular people ignoring their calling to what is meant for them. For example a person that should be an engineer just becomes an office worker or a teacher becomes a police officer instead. People have to realize what is meant for them so they can continue on their path to be their own hero.
E. I found the idea of the “collective unconscious” quite interesting. The idea that we as a species share a consciousness so to say is quite astounding. We gather our experiences and feelings and put them into the media that we watch or read every day. With that it is added to the consciousness and the world is now aware of it. It is almost like a public service announcement that everybody receives in the mail. One person comes up with the idea and it is written down and sent to people. Now everybody knows of it. This is right in front of us every day yet we hardly realize it even now when information can travel at the press of a button.
D. “In other words, stories don’t change-the names of the characters change, but the stories at the core are all the same”. This line here is very interesting to me. Stories are passed down from generation from generation but some details may change. An example of this could be the stories of the bible. Small details were changed over time as the audience changed but the core message always stayed the same.

A. I felt the reading relating to a personal aspect of my life, not really knowing exactly who I am or what I want. Fortunately I am still young so I have time to think however the decisions I make now or the activities I do I only feel I do because that’s what people look at best or are more respectable even if I don’t exactly like these decisions or activities. It also mentions “In the stories that speak to us most deeply, these elements remain remarkably constant.” I feel I relate to this line because whenever I see something deep, it remains remarkable constant and I like to see how I can apply that deep element in my life or how it does.
D. “He often gains some new powers and sets off with them. Eventually the hero re-emerges to his society with these new abilities bringing a boon to his society which somehow restores that society.” I enjoyed these lines because I felt it was spot on with describing a hero model, it seems like all of them are pretty much along the same lines with some variations but with the ultimate endpoint. I found this interesting.
E. My reaction to reading about the “collective unconscious” including me being very interested and surprised. I didn’t realized that “experiences stored in collective unconscious often manifest in myth, religion, dreams, fantasies, as well as in literature and folklore.” I understood dreams sometimes can put into stories but I was surprised to hear how they can manifest in religion and literature.

(Dakota Hess)
B. If it were not for archetypes good or bad, stories would have no story lines! There would be no conflicts and especially no heroes. This text explains the very importance and meaning of archetypes both good and bad. The importance of a hero archetype is for the ‘Ordinary World’ to have their sanity and safety. The reader or characters in the story depend on their hero for things.

A. One other part that I was very entertained to read was the twelve stages of how a hero is formed (Campbell Hero Model). This model plays thought one of my favorite things to read: comics. As peter parkers grandfather said to him “with great power comes great responsibility” Spiderman is a great representation to hero archetypes. Spiderman goes through all of the tests of a hero. He is called to duty by his city, New York. He is tested in many different aspects by villains and even goes through dark stages. But, that is the point of a hero archetype, to be tested and challenged and still be true to that ‘call of duty’.

E. I really enjoyed the reference to the Godfather in this writing. The comparison is a great one. The pain, loss, and all other things went through by this gang to keep their personal code. I also really enjoyed that said “viewing bad guys as the good guys”. These types of heroes I feel are always the more impacting types. They are doing something bad, but for a good reason.

A. At the last page of the informative text, the Twelve Stage Hero Model really does relate to what I've done last year for school. I always lived in Hoboken, New Jersey and went to schools there, but I've been asked to go to a school in New York City, New York called Xavier. I was scared at first, but I went to Xavier for an Open House and when I met the tour guide, he helped me decide to go to this school. I begin school as a freshman and I face my first problem which I end up overcoming. During my quest, I met friends Long the way that helped me in school and I met an enemy named homework. Sometimes I hit a setback to keep learning so I kept finding different ways to fix those problems. Towards the midpoint of my quest I find out I have to comple my midterms to continue, and I do that. I'm finally about to finish my quest by using all of my skills to beat the last trial, Final Exams. I complete that part of the quest and I finally to back home to show my mom my results.
B. The paragraph on page 2 says, " These recurring character types, patterns, descriptions and conflicts are archetypes." The importance of archetypes is always a high rating on a scale. Without archetypes, stories would be bland, and just a representation of someone's memory and not a story of fiction and tales. Archetypes are essential for stories to have a good storyline.
E. One of the ideas I became interested in was on page 2 and it said, Collective unconscious: You have an individual unconscious state, but humanity also shares an unconscious; as humanity continues to grow, the pool of experiences in the collective unconsciousness continues to grow as well. This idea interested me because when any is born they store memories in their brain which they will probably keep to themselves, causing a huge amount of stories that have not been told waiting to be remembered.

D. Although this is the very first “quote” in the packet, this really showed me something: “We would like to believe that humans in each region are different, but actually we are more similar than different…” This makes me contemplate on how the world is today. Do people think that other people are separated because of religion? Do they ever try to realize that we could all be the same in religious aspects, and probably even politically? Have we ever had the slightest idea that our enemies could be our true allies? We could potentially all be the same at heart, but some of us could’ve changed for the worse because of their own reasoning!
C. What confused me most in this packet is the picture presentation on Personal Consciousness, Personal Unconsciousness, and Collective Unconsciousness. Does that symbolize our creativity while we are asleep? It looks like an iceberg. I’m predicting that what we see is something small, but in reality that “thing” is huge. Does this symbolize our imagination with storyline development? Does this picture the human mind while we are awake and asleep? It looks like a type of “chart” that shows us our creativity in certain actions.
B. On page four, the second little passage in section H, this is a major piece of information. This makes us think all every single story that exists in the world is bounded together in one universe. That means that each single story may have its own storyline, but it takes place in the same “universe”, just at a different time or place.
(Eric Idelfonso)

A. I find that the twelve hero stage model was really the best way to completely sum up what the article was trying to get across to the reader. This model still is active in modern day life, movies, stories or books. Now movies seem to be very predictable, although still very interesting everybody in the movie theater knows the general ending of the movie which is the hero accomplishes his goal in the nick of time to save himself and everyone, unless of course the movie is Paranormal Activity.

B. The way that this part of the article is separate and most significant is that it opens every bodies eyes to see something new and know how the universal is produced and functions. Also it states the importance of an archetype and makes you think what a story or movie would be without it which would be pretty bad.

E. I really enjoyed reading about the collective unconscious and how it states the way everybody thinks and how they can interpret it in their mind and makes you wonder how we can put these images into our head and create an entire imaginary world in the blink of an eye with out thinking twice about it.

E- In the reading the concept of “collective unconscious” reminds me a lot of the movie Inception. This idea reminds of inception because it has a lot to do with dreams and the concept that our dreams reoccur and can affect our lives when we are not asleep. I also felt a sense of Inception like thoughts when the experiences in our dreams supposedly pool together and are stored in a collective unconscious. I also got the feeling of a parallel universe or something along those lines from the idea of collective unconscious. Another thing I found interesting from the collective conscious idea is that we can all share with each other without knowing.
I-@ johnaviles, richteri16 I agree with the both of you on the fact that many of us try to be like others and reject what our true path is and what God created us to be. I also agree on the fact that sometimes when we finally realize this and decide to follow what is in our hearts we may become enlightened and more of a genuine person or someone closer to our inner self.
D- In the reading the part I found to be most enjoyable were the line on the back page “Campbell Hero Model”. I found these interesting because in the Twelve Stage Hero Model I was able to place many of my favorite characters from movies, books, video games, etc. into the proper category and this made it more enjoyable to read. I also liked the idea of a hero reaching the peak or the “supreme ordeal” resulting in the hero “gaining the reward” and being forever challenged by the experience because it was some new terminology for me and it allowed me to look at particular stories differently by knowing this.