According to freedictionary.com ORPHAN means:
1. A child whose parents are dead.
2. A child who has been deprived of parental care and has not been adopted.
3. A young animal without a mother.
4. Lacking support, supervision, or care.
I think that Harry Potter is the best example of orphan archetype. He is always lonely and he is yang and doesn’t have both of his parents, because they died long time ago and all his life he was by himself.
This archetype (orphan) is associated with sad pictures, where children are lonely, unhappy and poor, and they always try to find someone, who can give them love and happiness. So if you see the picture of Harry Potter, you can tell that he is very lonely and sad. And the own next to him is kind of friend, so he doesn’t feel that lonely.
We can see the orphan archetype everywhere: in mythology, fiction, fairy tales, and even in history.
The orphan is a metaphor for something that is very deep inside us, something that bothers us, something that makes us feel such feelings as loneliness, failure, and loss of someone very important in our lives. And many orphans don’t want to accept it, so they fight with reality. But we need to heal them and face the reality. So only after that we can start our normal life
Second picture I picked up is the one from movie “August Rush”. This movie is about a yang boy Evan, who is 11 years old. He is leaving in orphanage and have no parents, but deeply believes that they are alive. So he decided to run away in order to find his parents. Music is a main thing in this movie that at the end brought everyone all together. So it is a good example of orphan archetype that represents a lot of kids that live in orphanages and are looking for their parents.
We can see a lot of orphans among superheroes, such as Batman or Spiderman or even Superman. They are all orphans. Even in cartoons for kids such as Disney cartoons there are a lot of orphan’s archetypes: Bambi or Cinderella
So we can see that orphan archetype is everywhere
Kinda makes me wanna watch August Rush. Is it a good movie?
ReplyDeleteI really like your post on the orphan. It was informative and well-written. I more identify with the altruist archetype but I do see elements of the orphan archetype in myself.
ReplyDeleteI love your entries. They are very informative. I don't know if you speak another language, but I did notice that you tend to omit articles from your sentences, such as "the" and "a". Try to look out for those things, but otherwise very well written and expressed.
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