3.5 " In class essay"

In “Coraline” by Joseph Campbell he displays his main character Coraline as a hero. He uses many examples and elements that makes it easy to identify her archetype as a hero but more specifically as a Tycoon hero. A tycoon hero is someone who at first is isolated and jaded in the novel only to end up happy and enjoying life by the end of the novel. Some elements that usually define a character as a hero is they must face trails and enemies on their journey, they must complete the final task alone, and after the final task is complete the hero returns home as the leader of his/her people.

Coraline is a tycoon hero because when the novel starts out Campbell describes how Coraline spend most of her days alone and she always got bored of things quickly. For example “ Coraline had watched all the videos. She was bored with her toys, and she’d read all her books” .(Pg 7) As you can tell by this quote nothing held her interest to long but all of this changes at the end of the novel when she starts appreciating the small things in life. For example “ Then she looked down at her lap, at the way the rich sunlight brushed every hair on the cat’s head, turning each white whisker to gold. Nothing, she thought had ever been so interesting” .(Pg 165) Now you can see how drastically Coraline’s attitude changed towards life and what it has to offer you.

The three elements that was listed above to identify a character as a hero is all present in “ Coraline”. Campbell did an exactly job at presenting Coraline as a hero using those elements. The first element being the hero must face trails and enemies on their journey. Coraline faces a lot of those on her journey to save her mother, father, and the three children from the “Other mother”. The main enemy in the story is the “ Other mother”.  In order to get her parents back and free the three children souls she had to make a deal with the” Other mother” that if she found everyone they would all be set free if not she would stay with the “ Other mother’ forever and get buttons sewed in as her eyes. On the journey looking for everyone Coraline  had to face many scary creatures for example “ Without warning, one of the creature’s hands made a grab for Coraline’s arm. its fingernails scarped her skin..” ( pg123) and again “ Run child. Leave this place. She wants me to hurt you, to keep you here forever, so that you can never finish the game and she will win.” ( pg 135). These are two examples of the enemies that she had to defeat in order to achieve her goal of finding her parents and the children. At first Coraline had the help of the cat in defeating the “Other man” and the cat giving her advice. The cat helped Coraline escape once she had found her parents and the children. “ Now”, the other mother said “ You’re going to stay here for ever and always” “No” said Coraline “I’m not” And, hard as she could, she threw the black cat towards the other mother. ( Pg 158) Well the cat was scratching and clawing at the other’s mother face this allowed Coraline and the cat a chance to escape. But in order to be a hero the final task has to be done alone.

Even though Coraline had escaped the other mother, a piece of the other mother entered into Coraline’s world which was the other mother’s hand. The other mother wanted the key that Coraline had stolen for her. So Caroline had set up a plan to trap the other mother in a extremely deep well that she could never escape from. Which Coraline was successful in this plan. “ I brought the lucky key to make sure we have a good picnic”. (189) She placed the key on the tablecloth which was on top of the well and when the other mother’s hand went to grab it they both fall into the well. Coraline successful defeated and got rid of the other mother for good.

The last element that was needed to make Coraline a hero was to return home as a leader of her people. Which she did, “ the cat walked over to her jumped up onto the plants that covered the well. Then, slowly it winked one eye at her. … in front of her, and rolled over onto it back, wiggling about ecstatically. ( pg192). This last quote shows that they cat looks at Coraline as a hero by laying on his back its showing that he feels Coraline is superior to him.

All of the elements listed above prove that Coraline archetype was a hero. Campbell established her as a good hero by using all of the elements.

  

3.4 'Project'

I decide to keep it simple it just do deep research about my Archetype which was Magician. I'm thinking about creating a few slides to illustrate my archetype but mainly i will just be talking about my archetype.

https://docs.google.com/present/edit?id=0AezdnbAFWEUhZGRjZ2NnZnhfMjR3ZjU4ZDJ4&hl=en

3:3 ideas for final project

Interpreting the movie " Inception" exploring the concept of dreams
Angels vs. Demons (good vs evil) where did the ideas of each come from and does it really matter in the end
The movie " Tales from the hood" exploring before you die do you really get a chance to make things right w. the ones you have hurt ( ideas of the grim reaper)
Exploring " Coraline" ideas about excasping to "another world"

Notes of Coraline 1-3

 In "Coraline" chapters 1-3 are mainly giving the background information on the characters. From the first three chapters you can tell that Coraline parents seem to busy with work and other activites to make time for their daughter. Which makes it easy for me to compare her to the orphan archetype. She might not be a orphan in the sense of not having parents but her parents are their physically but not there emotionally or anything else. They constantly try to keep her occupied so she won't realize how they don't have time for her but she does. Also you meet the "old man", Miss Spink, & Miss Forcible.Coraline describes them as weird and crazy. I associated those three with the magician archtype because the old man claims he is starting a circus for his mice and also he tells Coroline that the mice have a message for her the message is " don't go through the door". So he is saying that he can talk to animals. Also when Miss Spank & Miss forcible give Coraline tea they can tell by the leaves in Coraline's tea that she is in danger. So it's obvious (judging by the first three chapters) that these three have a special talent or are they just crazy?

3:2 Macbeth Act 1 scene 5

    This is one of the most important scene in the play because it shows how Macbeth and Lady Macbeth discussed killing the King. This scene also shows how Lady Macbeth questioned Macbeth's manhood and seduces him in order to convince him into killing King Duncan.Lady Macbeth's archetype of the temptress is extremely strong in this scene. She says " Glamis thou art, and Cawdor; and shalt be What thou art promised. Yet do I fear thy nature;It is too full o' the milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way: thou wouldst be great;Art not without ambition; but without The illness should attend it." These is saying that Lady Macbeth questions if Macbeth has strength to seize the crown, but he is to weak or lacks enough aggression to capture his opportunity to become king. She also is saying that Macbeth wants to act like a good man and not cheat but yet he wants what doesn't belong to him. Secondly,when she is talking about killing King Duncan and inheriting all of the power it appears that she is having a sexual organism. When she sees that Macbeth is hesitant in killing the king she kisses him multiply times and ensures  that everything will go as planned. They close the deal by having a deep passionate kiss.