Week 5
I
personally believe that any archetype is a stereotype. I touched upon this
during class but I wanted to expand upon it. To me everyone’s reality is
different and not ever similar to anyone else’s regardless of if the
information around them. Because just because there is information out there in
the world for us to base our opinions of people doesn’t mean it is all received
the same way into our brains. This is where interpretation comes in. I
understand the point of archetype and its hope to try to categorize characters
into a certain type of person but I think that is extreme limiting and only
encourages copycat writing in the future. I think trying to categorize people
in the first place is futile. There is so much that is NOT known in the world
(what we touched upon during the new weird stage) that trying to identify us
just seems silly. Why not just create a character completely unconventional. We
all have women AND men in our lives that blow our opinions and perspectives out
of the water because they choose not to gobble up what society force feeds us.
To me all archetypes and stereotypes are the same regardless of how different
they are because they are so limiting to the imagination. I don’t think the
creative part of the brain needs a basis of which to pull from. You think of
children and how they can think of insane things when they've had so little exposure to the world and we find it silly and yet
we praise the mundane mind of an adult that was watered down by our "archetypes."
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