Understatement and Archetypes
Understatement and Archetypes
Satire Review
Is used to expose and criticize foolishness and corruption of an individual or a society by using humor, irony, exaggeration or ridicule It intends to improve humanity by criticizing. A writer may point a satire toward a person, a country or even the entire world. It usually makes things seem ridiculous.
Satire
How is The Crucible a satire?
Understatement
An understatement is - Portraying something as being smaller or less important than it actually is.
Understatement Examples
EXAMPLES: To say it rained a bit more than usual while describing an area being flooded after a heavy rain fall. To say it is a bit cold today when temperature is 20!
What is an archetype?
An original model after which other things are similarly patterned A character type or a representation of recurring idea. Evokes strong associations to the reader.
Types of Archetypes
The Tragic Hero The Sullied Hero The Romantic Hero The Temptress The Devil Figure The Scapegoat
Examples
Rick Grimes The Walking Dead https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zh33XbqegJI
The sullied hero is initially not someone we, as an audience, look up tosomeone who because of a flaw is considered inferior in some way. It is this fallibility that makes us identify with him/her
A character of extremes
Can be obsessive (with love or something else)
Contd
Quest for beauty of perfection Becomes consumed with the desire of the unattainable. Longs for something more
The past The impossible Example
The Temptress
Characterized by sensuous beauty, this woman is one to whom the protagonist is physically attracted and who ultimately brings about his downfall. May appear as a witch or vampire Example
The Scapegoat
An animal, or more usually a human, whose death in a public ceremony expiates some taint or sin of a community. They are often more powerful in death than in life. A character that takes the blame of everything bad that happens