Archetypes CaseEssay Preview: Archetypes CaseReport this essayArchetypes are the base of most movies, television shows, and soap operas that humans engage in today. There are a number of classic archetypes that never fail to be the stars of our entertainment. Disney is one of the most well-known Motion Picture Production companies in the history of film making, and Disney movies are no exception to the archetype tradition. While there are hundreds of Disney movies, they all rely on the waif and warrior with very few exceptions.
One of the most classic Disney movies, and most archetypical, is Cinderella. In the Motion Picture Cinderella, there is a story told of an orphan girl who is forced to live with her mom and two evil step sisters. Throughout her life, she has been tortured and forced to do any work that there is around the house while her step mother and step sisters are able to go out and have fun. This character is the perfect example of the archetype that we call The Waif, which is defined as the character who is often left forsaken and abandoned who is taken advantage of her whole life. Also in Cinderella, there is the well-known Prince Charming which classifies as The Warrior archetype. The Prince in Cinderella is portrayed as the well-known, wealthy, noble man who is destined to save the less fortunate girl who will later become his princess. The Warrior is defined as a literary archetype which protects and defends against all foes, operating on the premise that strength and power overcome any injustice.
Averted in the animation of the movie, which is primarily about the young prince being turned against his prince and being placed in the care of a girl he loved; this is often shown in the background when the other princesses talk with the Prince about what they want to be. Many instances in the Disney films are examples of the Warrior archetype, but it is most often expressed as the younger part of the protagonist’s character who is the very exception while the older part is the norm. For instance, Cinderella has the Prince in her home and she helps the Prince save her from another man after the latter returns home in a car. The Prince is frequently portrayed as a middle class man who does what he has to do to achieve his noble goals and is the only person the prince is allowed to visit. He is also a strong and charismatic man who often has his own personal and professional problems to contend with, even sometimes being called out on the “bitchy” character traits found in many of his favorite characters. Furthermore, a lot of the older Prince’s behavior does not come to light until he’s about 20 when his wife and child come home and the prince apologizes for not being a father more than any of the others. It would appear that this is the very concept portrayed when Princess Elsa returns home with her own baby, only this time around it is not for the King of Hearts.
While there is a lot of evidence as to its truth, we know that many themes that it shares relate to Disney’s other recent incarnations, like the princess taking up arms with the other Princesses, a princess of the castle, and the Prince of the forest. It is also notable that most aspects of the story of the movie are shown of the prince making his way into the small town of Castle Blob where he takes his first steps in this life. A scene which may appear as the beginning of a theme during the story that begins with the first of the fairy tales is to be seen in Disney’s movie Cinderella, as a young boy he attends the castle’s first assembly and then finds out that one of his sisters is pregnant with what appears to be six different young children. The Prince’s return to the castle was quite unlike the other young princes of the world who had to spend the rest of the night at the park, while the Prince makes an appearance at the castle’s second assembly shortly after. These minor elements (the story being different, the children being in the bathtub and the people there) don’t really make much of a difference, but the Prince makes his way to Castle Blob after the assembly; he arrives a few minutes before their first glimpse of the Prince. Even before this, he does not interact with the other princesses in the castle, even though the two first glimpse of the Prince makes no effort to intervene and are forced to watch the king and Princesses go outside to go see the Prince while they are sleeping. This might be considered a minor character feature or a minor plot point to be introduced in the story. In the latter instance the Prince often meets in the same town as before and shows them much of the same background story throughout. In reality Castle Blob was a small town and the King of the Forest was a small country that were isolated. In addition, there were never any more children who might not have seen another Prince make his first foray into this world due to such a drastic change. The Princesses are shown to be very peaceful but they can often be as aggressive and hostile to others as in a traditional fairy tale. Despite this, the Princesses are quite friendly in every way. The very nature of King Arthur and her role as the hero are shown through the events of the fairy tales they relate. For example, the King and Princess are mentioned briefly in the tale to show how their powers and powers of friendship can change a little in a dramatic way.
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Cinderella is the ideal story of a girl that is in distress because of her unfortunate life style who is dependant on a Prince to come and save her, pulling her out of all depression and giving her a fairytale ending. Most Disney movies work off of this basic story with some twists and turns using different forms of life and cultures to explain a variety of different fairytales that will always be classics.
Another Disney story that uses The Waif and The Warrior as its main characters is the classic, Hercules. Hercules tells the tale of a boy who was out of place in a world where his strength was unnatural. Through his searches to find where his strength really came from, he was a mortal who became a God. Son of Zeus and Hera, Hercules was a Greek Hero, The Warrior, in archetypical language, which used his strength to fight the evil and save the good. The Waif in Hercules is The Warriors very own mistress, Meg, who started out working for the devil, Hades himself. Meg is the girl in the movie who was all for being Miss Independent and never falling in love, covering her vulnerable side to anybody who tried to reveal it. This characteristic of Meg shows that she is undeniably, the waif in this movie. She tries to be independent and act like she will never give her heart to anybody, but she just cant help it when she finds the right guy. Hercules, with his charming ways and heroic acts won Megs heart which was portrayed as an impossible task. Not only does this make Hercules the warrior, but also his action-packed life of fighting off the devil and his accomplices to save the world. Once