archetypal story definition
Reply: I'm not sure about plots for stories, but plots for plays is something my father Denis Johnston, had a lot to say about. Originally he thought there were seven, but then he realised there are in fact eight: Cinderella - Unrecognised virtue at last recognised. It's the same story as the Tortoise and the Hare. In the Poetics, Aristotle (4th century BC) developed the earliest known model of narrative form, based on the ideas of thematic organisation, completeness of form (1450b), and the creating and resolution of tension (1455b). Even the simpler eight-plot model described above, combined with Propp's seven archetypal characters, may suggest ways in which the plots of films or books can be analysed, and new stories can be constructed. An archetype is an aspect of a story, whether it is something as small as a symbol or something as large as the overall theme of the story, which has been repeated or borrowed many times throughout the history of literature. This reappearance actually strengthens the impact it has on the reader. Examples of structural archetypes include the quest, the fall, the journey, and the ritual story lines. Ultimately, an archetype is merely a recognizable pattern and can be applied to thematic elements, plot sequences, and character types. It's also noted on the mini-guide to structuralism elsewhere on this server that Vladimir Propp's Morphology of the Folktale (1928) identified seven archetypal characters, which he called actants. A character that can be seen as an archetype is often referred to as a stock character.. This character regularly appears in literary works and is often assigned typical attributes commonly associated with that type of character. Reply: I'm not sure about plots for stories, but plots for plays is something my father Denis Johnston, had a lot to say about. Cinderella - Unrecognised virtue at last recognised. It's the same story as the Tortoise and the Hare. Cinderella doesn't have to be a girl, nor does it even have to be a love story. An archetype is a reference to a concept, a person or an object that has served as a prototype of its kind and is the original idea that has come to be used over and over again. Archetypes are literary devices that employ the use of a famous concept, person or object to convey a wealth of meaning. Archetypes are immediately identifiable and even though they run the risk of being overused, they are still the best examples of their kind. Archetype is a theme, event, or an idea that keeps repeating in literature. It ties in with the term intertextuality, in that all story's come from the same story. Archetype is the same idea or happening that keeps showing up in numerous story's. An example of a type of archetype is the quest.
It is an aspect of a story, whether it is something as small as a symbol or something as large as the overall theme of the story.