Developing a New Major

ch2 was about the framework of the her’s journey, this is about archetypical characters and their function in the story, if you understand the archetype the character is supposed to play then you know if htey’re doing as much as they can in the story, characters take on different archetypes over time - mentor is not always just a mentor, he sees archetypes as flexible story functions

could think of archetypes as aspects of the hero’s character and as the hero goes on the journey they add those character aspects from the people they meet till at hte end they’re a more complete personality

says there are some basic archetypes (each gets its own chapter) - hero, mentor (wise old man/wise old woman), threshold guardian, herald, shapeshifter, shadow, ally, trickster

fairytales  have lots of other archetypes - good mother, hunter, wolf, witch, prince/princess/greedy innkeeper, the eternal child (like peter pan)- they have very specialized function int eh story

modern stories also have new archetypes - whore with heart of gold, good cop/bad cop pairing - but they’re subdivisions of the basic patterns

two questions - what psychological function (or part of the personality) does the archetype represent and What is the archetype’s dramatic funtion int he story

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