Tuesday, April 3, 2012

1. Tuesday, April 3, 2012 • What does it take? Activity • Notes

2. What makes a “good” teacher?

3. “For we have not even to risk the adventure alone, for the heroes of all time have gone before us...” ― Joseph Campbell

4. Archetype ar·che·type (ärk-tp) n. 1. An original model or type after which other similar things are patterned; a prototype: "'Frankenstein' . . . 'Dracula' . . . 'Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde' . . . the archetypes that have influenced all subsequent horror stories" (New York Times). 2. An ideal example of a type; quintessence: an archetype of the successful entrepreneur. 3.In Jungian psychology, an inherited pattern of thought or symbolic imagery derived from the past collective experience and present in the individual unconscious.

5. Background: • Psychologist (A person trained and educated to perform psychological research, testing, and therapy) Carl Jung and scholar Joseph Campbell spread the idea of archetypes. They did not create the concept. • There are repeating patters of character types, symbols, relationships, and situations in stories across time periods.

6. Background: • For example, each culture has a creation myth, and history repeats itself. • Archetypes are common character types, symbols and relationships that appear often in stories (new and old). Archetypes help us to understand the purpose/function of characters in a story.

7. Background: • Archetypes are like masks that the characters wear at different points of the story. • We will focus on 7: hero, mentor, herald, threshold guardian, shapeshifter, trickster, and shadow.

8. Your mission: • In small groups of four, identify the qualities/characteristics that your archetype commonly has in the story-whatever that may be. • Create a poster and label these qualities or characteristics. • Add any other notes that your classmates should know. You are the expert, so teach them! • You will share these notes with the class.

9. What makes a (insert archetype)?

10. Hero Qualities/Characteristics: • Selfless; self-sacrifice • Easily identified with; everyman • Seven different types Types/Examples: • Willing: King Arthur, Hercules • Unwilling: Shrek • Cynical Anti-Hero: Gollum, Gatsby, Captain Jack Sparrow • Tragic Anti-Hero: Hamlet • Group Oriented: William Wallace • Lone Hero: Indiana Jones • Catalyst Hero: Superman

11. Mentor Qualities/Characteristics: • Loyal friend, wise adviser, teacher, guardian • Connected to all things; older • Acts as the hero’s conscience • May be what the hero could become • 2 responsibilities: teaching and gift giving Types/Examples: • Dark mentor: opposite of heroic values • Fallen mentor: has trouble w/ own heroic journey • Continuing mentor: recurring characters in a series of stories • Multiple mentors: each teaches a new skill to the hero • Comic mentor: advising sidekick • Shaman: aids the Hero in seeking a guiding vision to help on the journey.

12. Herald/Harbinger Qualities/Characteristics: • Gives a challenge or announces the coming of change. • Can be a chance or planned meeting with the hero. • Often represented by an animal • Compels the Hero to answer the Call to Adventure* • Can be Hero’s inner knowledge that change is needed or a feeling of restlessness Types/Examples: • Negative: a Shadow or Threshold Guardian (issuing a challenge or trying to trick the Hero) • Positive: the mentor in disguise • Neutral: an Ally or Threshold Guardian (Hero has found his/her own way to the 1st Threshold)

13. Threshold Guardian Qualities/Characteristics: • A menacing face to the Hero, but can be overcome or turn into an ally • Not the villain, but a lesser thug or henchman hired to guard the chief’s headquarters • Placed to test the Hero’s willingness and skill. Types/Examples: • Not always characters • May represent obstacles (bad weather, bad luck, prejudice, oppression) • Can be the Hero’s internal demons (emotional scars, vices, dependencies, self-limitations) • Fully evolved Hero can learn to feel compassion for his enemies rather than just destroy them.

14. Shapeshifter Qualities/Characteristics: • Can be confused w/ Trickster • Main job = lure the Hero to his/her doom or reward. • In some stories the hero has to figure out which side he or she is dealing with • Often begins life as a Threshold Guardian. Types/Examples: • Changes form • Often the Hero’s love interest whom the Hero doesn’t understand • Sincerity and loyalty is called into question • Characters out for blood who may try to murder the Hero • Ally or enemy label revealed at the end of story

15. Trickster/Fool Qualities/Characteristics: • Differs from Shapeshifter in that it is the comic aspect of story • Often begins life as a Threshold Guardian. Types/Examples: • Personification of world’s chaos w/ no purpose • May or may not work with the Hero or Shadow • May have own skewed agenda

16. Shadow Qualities/Characteristics: • Represents the energy of the dark side, the unexpressed, unrealized, or rejected aspects of something • In direct conflict with the Hero whose goal it is to destroy Types/Examples: • External shadows (Villains) must be destroyed • Internal shadows must be acknowledged • Mirror and personify the traits the Hero refuses to acknowledge are within himself/herself • A Mentor may act as a Shadow to teach the Hero a lesson • Any character can be a shadow, but only the character whose motivations are in direct conflict with the Hero’s is the Villain

17. Let’s use a movie example: Finding Nemo

18. Let’s use a movie example: Finding Nemo • Hero:

19. Let’s use a movie example: Finding Nemo • Hero: Marlin

20. Let’s use a movie example: Finding Nemo • Mentor:

21. Let’s use a movie example: Finding Nemo • Mentor: Crush (sea turtle)

22. Let’s use a movie example: Finding Nemo • Herald: Nemo starting school

23. Let’s use a movie example: Finding Nemo • Threshold Guardian:

24. Let’s use a movie example: Finding Nemo • Threshold Guardian: Bruce, Anchor, & Chum (sharks) among other obstacles.

25. Let’s use a movie example: Finding Nemo • Shapeshifter: Ocean (?)

26. Let’s use a movie example: Finding Nemo • Trickster:

27. Let’s use a movie example: Finding Nemo • Trickster: Dory

28. Let’s use a movie example: Finding Nemo • Shadow:

29. Let’s use a movie example: Finding Nemo • Shadow: separation from son; dentist, scuba-diver

30. Let’s use a movie example: Finding Nemo • Hero: Marlin • Mentor: Crush (sea turtle) • Herald: Nemo starting school • Threshold Guardian: Bruce, Anchor, & Chum (sharks) • Shapeshifter: Ocean (?) • Trickster: Dory • Shadow: separation from son; dentist, scuba-diver • Go to Day 2 PP