Archetypes
Characteristics of Heroes
The Hero's Journey
Characterization
The Neverending Story
100
This is recurring pattern of images, situations, or symbols found in the mythology, religion, art, and dreams of cultures around the world.
What is archetype?
100
Harry Potter's scar or Oedipus' swollen foot.
What is the Unhealable Wound?
100
The hero's world before the journey takes place. 12 o'clock.
What is Ordinary World or Status Quo?
100
Type of character who never changes.
What is Static?
100
This is the villain to Atreyu in TNS.
What is The Nothing?
200
This archetype hates the hero and tries to overthrow him or her.
What is the villain?
200
Luke Skywalker's light saber, Harry Potter's wand, Arthur's sword.
What is the Special Weapon?
200
When the hero decides that he must set out on an adventure, and sometimes often refuses to go.
What is Call to Adventure?
200
Type of character with very few characteristics or traits.
What is Flat?
200
This is Bastian's treasure in The Neverending Story.
What is the last grain of sand from Fantasia?
300
Older character who is wiser and more experienced than the hero.
What is the mentor?
300
When the hero redeems the deeds of past generations, often of his or her mother or father.
What is Atonement with the Father?
300
When the hero faces the greatest darkness in the tale. He or she may often be wounded or even die.
What is Crisis?
300
This type of character has many different characteristics and traits, a fully formed person.
What is Round?
300
This archetype was displayed by the wolf creature, Gmork, in The Neverending Story?
What is Shadow?
400
This character may be an archetype who hasn't realized their potential, who may be pitied, or cast aside from the group.
What is the Outcast?
400
Goddess Athena assists Odysseus, Yahweh assists Moses, the Ghost of Hamlet's father assists Hamlet.
What is Supernatural Help?
400
The thing the hero obtains as a result of fighting the greatest antagonist in the journey.
What is the Treasure?
400
This type of character changes from the first part of the story to the last.
What is Dynamic?
400
Defeating one of these archetypes allows the main character to move on to the next level of the journey.
What is Threshold Guardian?
500
One type of antagonist that the hero may face. S/He may mirror the hero in some dark way.
What is the Shadow?
500
When the hero is rewarded spiritually for his or her good deeds at the end of the tale.
What is Apotheosis?
500
This point, 9:00, marks the moment when the hero emerges from the Special World and makes an appearance back to the familiar world of the Status Quo.
What is Return?
500
This is an example of a flat character in "Strong Horse Tea."
The mailman. Snooks?
500
This archetype is displayed by the Childlike Empress in The Neverending Story.
What is Damsel in Distress?
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