What is An Archetype? “An archetype is an ideal example or model after which other things are patterned.” In literature archetypes are patterns, images, objects, characters that remind you of other patterns, images, objects, and characters that you’ve seen before. “Archetypal criticism argues that archetypes determine the form and function of literary works, that a text’s …
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