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Monday 22 October 2012

Archetypes and stereotypes

Find an archetypal male or female character from this website.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AlwaysFemale

or this one

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Alwaysmale


Find a short clip on youtube/TV to illustrate this character.


Stereotype: A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.

eg: 50 Cent conforms to the hip-hop stereotype of being a chauvinist gangster.
eg: The blonde women in Ken Russell films are stereotypically playful.

Archetype: An original model or type after which other similar things are patterned; a prototype:

eg 1 Frankenstein has inspired many similar monsters; he is the ARCHETYPAL zombie.
eg 2: Dracula,  ‘Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde’ - the ARCHETYPES of split personalities that have influenced all subsequent horror stories.

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