ObiWan Kenobi

ObiWan KenobiAfter he had learned the ways of the force and fought in the clone wars, he decided to try and teach Anikan Skywalker the ways of the Force. Now he is forced to find someone who can stop Darth Vaders evil wrath of destruction.

Lando CalrissianGambler. Former owner of the Millennium Falcon. Han's freind untill Han is deceived by him. Lando Makes a deal and sells Han, and Han's friends, to the Empire, in exchange for getting left alone by the empire.

Princess LeiaA beautiful, strong woman whose world has been destroyed by the Empire. In the second and third films, Leia becomes more and more esoteric. She offers advice to Luke Skywalker. It seems she knows what the future may hold.

Jaba the HutJaba is a gangster. He has a palace on Tatooine. He is like a big fat slug. At the beginning of the thir Star Wars movie, a young man arrives and proves that he is a Jedi Master by killing Jaba and rescuing his friends.

Lord VaderFormer student of Obi-wan. He was seduced by the Dark Side of the Force, and becomes the personification of evil. The good man inside of him was destroyed and the cruel side of him was shown. He then sought to extinguish all of the jedi.

Luke SkywalkerAn orphan, he is raised by his aunt and uncle on a small planet where life is normal and boring. One day, his world is turned upside down when stormtroopers attack. He then travels far from home, and with the aid of a powerful tool, the light sabre, and finds himself fighting against a massive evil power.

Prof. DumbledoreAn old man, Prof. Dumbledore has mastered many secrets of wizardry. It is his task to teach the future generations of Hogwarts. He takes a particular liking to a new student by the name of Harry Potter.

Severus SnapeSnape is a nightmare of a teacher – picking on the boy from the moment he stepped into Potions class. But Snape is a tricky persona. Is he an evil man with moments of good, or a good man who has some very ugly characteristics? Or something more complicated all together?

Sybil TrelawneyAnother Professor at Hogwarts, she is generally seen to be weird. But every once in a while, she seems to be able to see into the future, to know things no one else does.

Gilderoy LockhartA stuck-up, self-aggrandizing professor at Hogwarts. He is one of the many opponents that Harry Potter has to prove himself against, on the path to facing the dark Lord Voldemort.

Lord VoldemortHe is the embodiment of evil and destruction. He was rotten to his very core. There would be no redemption for such a wicked spirit. There was never any "good" lying dormant underneath Voldemort's dark exterior. He was never corrupted as a child; he was the corrupter.

Harry PotterAn orphan, he is raised by his aunt and uncle in London where life is normal and boring. One day, his world is turned upside down when a mysterious letter arrives. He then travels far from home, and with the aid of a powerful tool, his wand, he finds himself fighting against a massive evil power.

GandalfA wise old wizard, he knows much about the rings of power, and decides to guide Frodo Baggins on his journey to destroy the ring.

WormtongueInfluenced by the Dark Lord Sauron, Wormtongue whispers tricky words into the ear of the king, trying to deceive him.

GollumIt’s hard to tell whether Gollum is a good creature who has turned bad or if he is really a bad creature that has hope for goodness. He accompanies Frodo Baggins and sometimes helps, sometimes tricks Frodo.

Lord SauronThe embodiment of evil and destruction, represented by a fiery, all-seeing Eye.

Frodo BagginsAn orphan, he is close to his uncle Bilbo in the Shire, life is normal and boring. One day, his world is turned upside down when a mysterious old wizard arrives. He then travels far from home, and with the aid of a powerful tool, the ring of power, he finds himself fighting against a massive evil power.

MorpheusA mysterious man who seems to know very much and be very powerful. He finds Thomas Anderson, a loner computer programmer, and decides to teach him the ways to move through the Matrix.

CypherPart of the team that Morpheus has assembled, he acts good, but eventually betrays the team, tricking them about the Matrix.

The OracleA mysterious woman who shows up, offers the main character Thomas Anderson some cookies, and tells him mystical words that foretell his future as The One---NEO.

Agent SmithThe Matrix is a computer program that robots have created to enslave mankind. Agent Smith is the personification of the evil computers.

NeoA loner computer programmer, life is normal and boring. One day, his world is turned upside down when a mysterious man arrives. He then travels far from home, and with the aid of a powerful tool, his ability to move through the Matrix, he finds himself fighting against a massive evil power.

Joseph Campbell1906-1987

Carl Jung1875-1961Swiss psychologist / psychiatrist

In our stories, we are always using the same characters.

Myth is….

“A story that cannot be proved to be true but contains truth.”

“Myth IS truth. It is mythology which makes reality real.”

Archetypes

A universally understood symbol, term, or pattern of behavior, a prototype upon which others are copied, patterned, or emulated. Archetypes are used in myths and storytelling across different cultures.

Myth is the Collective Unconscious

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)

Sigmund Freud says…

Conscious mind: That which we do for a reason, with conscious decision-making.

Unconscious mind: That which we do without apparent reason. The Unconscious is shaped by and influence by our repressed emotions and desires (especially sexual).

Jung says…

Conscious mind: Agreed.

Unconscious mind: That’s too narrow & too negative! There must be a second level of the unconscious, where the archetypes themselves reside (represented in mythology by a lake or other body of water, and in some cases a jug or other container).

Jung says…

Personal Unconscious: What Freud said.

Collective Unconscious: “My thesis then, is as follows: in addition to our immediate consciousness, which is of a thoroughly personal nature and which we believe to be the only empirical psyche, there exists a second psychic system of a collective, universal, and impersonal nature which is identical in all individuals. This collective unconscious does not develop individually but is inherited. It consists of pre-existent forms, the archetypes, which can only become conscious secondarily and which give definite form to certain psychic contents.”

Minimalist Interpretation“Certain structures and predispositions of the unconscious are common to all of us...[on] an inherited, species-specific, genetic basis' Thus 'one could as easily speak of the "collective arm" - meaning the basic pattern of bones and muscles which all human arms share in common."

Maximalist InterpretationJung was 'also at pains to stress the mystical quality of these experiences, and there can be no doubt that he was attracted to the idea that the archetypes afford evidence of some communion with some divine or world mind‘.

Mythology is Brahman

Jung’s Five Archetypes

1. The Self: The ideal form a person wishes to be.

2. The Shadow: traits that are hidden from day to day life and are in some cases the opposite of the self

3. The Anima: the feminine side within a man. Anima represents what femininity truly represents it in all its mysteries.

Jung’s Five Archetypes

4. The Animus: allows a female to understand and communicate with a man. Part of the collective unconscious' connection with all of the encounters of males with females, like the anima, to improve relationship with males and females5. The Persona: just the face that is put on for the world, not our deepest internal secrets and desires

Campbell’s 7 Archetypes

1. The Hero: “To serve and Sacrifice”2. The Mentor: “To guide”3. The Threshold Guardian: “to test”4. The Herald: “to warn and challenge”5. The Shapeshifter: “to question and deceive”6. The Shadow: “to destroy”7. The Trickster: “to disrupt”

Why are so many heroes orphans? Cinderella Hansel and Gretel Snow White David Copperfied (A Tale of Two Cities) Pip (Great Expectations) Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn Jane Eyre King Arthur Romulus & Remus Batman Spiderman Superman Many of the X-men………

Important Clarifications…The characters are not always human in form. They could be a thing, or even something within the hero.

One human being can play many archetypes: at one point in the story, Obi Wan Kenobi is the mentor; later on he is the hero who sacrifices himself; Bilbo Baggins is first a mentor, then a trickster. Darth Vader is the shadow who becomes the mentor.