Archetype

An archetype is a pattern, symbol, or theme that can be found anywhere throughout literature. Archetypes fit into three major categories, they are: characters, symbols/situations, and images. Archetypes aren't found in one specific type of literature, archetypes are found in 'ALL types of literature.



Definition of the Term
A detail image, or character type that occurs frequently in literature and myth and is thought to appeal in a universal way to the unconscious and to evoke a response.