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The past two weeks, I read the drama “Beyond The Tragedy of Julius Caesar” by William Shakespeare. Archetypes are very typical examples of a certain person or thing. Archetypes can be explain through situational, character, or symbol examples. Situational examples can be expressed through quests, tasks, or unbearable wounds. Character examples can be expressed through hero’s, mentor/pupil, or hunting groups. Here are a few examples of archetypes expressed in other stories.

The first archetype I chose was heroic actions from Dolphin Tale, as a young boy who’s brother has just been sent off to war finds a dolphins tail stuck in a fishers box/net which caused an infection in the tail which had to be surgically removed. Julius Caesar was the infection in his tragedy and Brutus was his surgical removal.

The second archetype I chose was Curiosity from Tangled, an teenage girl locked away in her tower never able to explore the outside of her tower, she’s held hostage always curious about the “glowing lanterns” and why they glow every year on her birthday. Just like Flavius’s curiosity of everyones business of being on a street in Rome.

The third and final archetype I chose is love from Beauty and the Beast, who as a fearless daughter saves her dad from having to stay in a dungeon for the rest of his life. As she soon starts falling in love with the beast and breaks the curse of the prince being a beast. Cassius tells Brutus how she feels about him and hopes that he understands and eventually feels the same way.

The benefits to readers of identifying and analyzing archetypes are being able to understand and recognize how they can plainly be in your favorite disney movie, favorite book or show. You can take something such as movie or even book sequels and realize that there are several different archetypes.

In class we read “Build a fire” and we chose a topic that related to some sort of this story. I chose hypothermia, and had many questions about hypothermia. I thought hypothermia was interesting because I want to be some type of nurse when I get older, and hypothermia is a disease so maybe one day I could help treat it. As I watched “To Build a Fire” I saw many ways how the cold weather affected the man such as ice on his beard and numbness in his hands.

For my research for hypothermia, I researched questions such as “what are the side affects for hypothermia?”, “what’s the cause of hypothermia?” and “can it kill you”. As I researched these questions I found a website that told me the side affects for hypothermia. As your body temperature drops, signs and symptoms of moderate to severe hypothermia include; shivering, clumsiness, slurred speech, confusion, and drowsiness. The cause of hypothermia includes cold exposure when the balance between the body’s heat production and heat loss tips toward heat loss for a prolonged period. The chances of dying from hypothermia kill at an amazing pace when cold temperature causes the body to loose heat quickly.