ARCHETYPAL LITERATURE

In this unit, students will read and analyze a selection of archetypal texts from around the world and examine how these archetypes connect to the human condition.

 

Objectives

• Understand the nature of the archetype and common archetypal patterns.

• Recognize the archetypal patterns in literature and art.

• Recognize the similarities of these archetypal patterns within our own journeys.

• How are these archetypal patterns important to a culture? To an individual?

• How has society’s notion of law and order/ god and evil altered or buried many of these original stories/myths?

• How can we find meaning in a chaotic world?

 

Myths of the Greeks and Romans

Intro to Myths and Achilles and Odysseus

 

 

 

 

Student Projects

Agamenmon and Prometheus

• David Eke, Rachel Gomez, Caroline Umila - Agamemnon and Prometheus: https://prezi.com/einqk_pk2lsl/prometheus-and-agamemnon/

 

Oedipus and Antigone

• Renny Calcano, Destiny Gray, Darryl Hicks - Oedipus and Antigone: 

 

"The Thousand Faces of Love"

• Isabel Henares, Eleanor Lambert, Melanie Mikoy - "The Thousand Faces of Love: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kL70g-JUPo&feature=em-upload_owner 

 

Heracles and Dionysus

• Yuntau Liu, An Nguyen, Paige Orphe' - Heracles and Dionysus: https://prezi.com/epsbph8cj3ea/heracles-and-dionysus/

 

"Heroic Quests"

• Talia McLean and Aaron Powell: ​

,

• Gabrielle Chinn and Mylena Cox: 

 

 

Intro to Cultures

• Encountering Strangeness: "The Body Ritual of the Nacirema" - http://www.ohio.edu/people/thompsoc/body.html

• The Human Mind and the Need to Define Our Universe -   http://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html

• Mythology Review Site: http://www.theoi.com/

 

 

The Questing Mythic Hero

• Intro, from The Power of Myth, with Joseph Campbell and Bill Moyer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSWcIcOcDvU

• The Hero Abridged, with Joseph Campbell, from The Power of Myth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJwPIiUPfK4&list=PLR6rytGOJn7mjaDchlzMSCyslMc2hdIxm&index=1

• The Hero''s Journey/Monomyth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SB_Q1gFsvIw&list=PLR6rytGOJn7mjaDchlzMSCyslMc2hdIxm&index=2

 

 

 

​

Unit Selections 

 

• Grant, Michael. Myths of the Greeks and Romans.

• “From Homeless to Harvard,” Albert Siebert, and “Million-Dollar Murray,” Malcolm Gladwell (essay)

• “Four Functions of Mythology,” Joseph Campbell (essay)

• Clips from The Power of Myth, Joseph Campbell (film)

• “The Negro Speaks of Rivers,” Langston Hughes (poem)

• “Ego Tripping,” Nikki Giovanni (poem)

• “Musee des Beaux Arts” and “Landscape with the Fall of Icarus” (painting and poem)

• “Bluebeard”  (myth)

• “Vasalissa the Wise” ” (myth)

• “La Loba,” “Spiderwoman,” three fates – connection  (myth)

• “The Lay of the Werewolf” – discuss shifting wolf myths and connect to human nature and societal expectations (myth)

• “My Life as a Bat,” Atwood (poem)

• “The Lady of Shalott,” Alfred Lord Tennyson (poem); “The Lady of Shalott,” John Waterhouse (painting)

• “Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” and “Hollow Men,” T.S. Eliot (poem)

 

Unit Vocabulary

 

Allegory                  Allusion                     Anaphora                  Archetype               Chivalry               Courtly love

Diction                    End rhyme                Enjambment             Free verse               Hyperbole           Irony

Metaphor                Myth                         Personification          Rites of passage      Satire                 Simile

Symbol                   Symbol                     Syntax                       Understatement       

 

 

Unit Documents