HUMOROUS ARCHETYPES, AND SHADOW ARCHETYPES

Northrup Frye said that the Romance presents an idealized world, the black-and-white world of our desires, where good things are really good, and bad things are really bad. The Romance involves the Journey, and the Journey involves the Hero, the Villain, the Quest, the Sage, the Prohibition, the Sacrifice, the Dragon, the Treasure, and sometimes the rescue of the Maiden.

The epiphany (mountain top, tower, island, lighthouse, ladder, staircase, Jack’s beanstalk, Rapunzel’s hair, Indian rope trick etc.) connects Heaven and Earth. Carl Jung said that there are archetypes related to three stages of the journey, 1. The preparation for the journey (the innocent, the orphan, the warrior, and the caregiver); 2. The journey itself (the seeker, the destroyer, the lover, the creator), and 3. The end of the journey (the ruler, the magician, the sage, and the wise fool). Jung used the term “shadow archetype” for any character who was exhibiting either too much of a particular quality or too little of a particular quality (e.g. Florence Nightingale was a shadow caregiver because caregiving was pretty much the only quality of her life). How closely do Jung's Archetypes match the Archetypes in real life? Explain.