Wise man

What is an Archetype? An archetype is a story pattern based on the idea of the collective unconscious. There are two parts of thoughts of the mind, the conscious mind and the unconscious mind. The conscious mind is all that one can think is going through someone’s head. The unconscious mind is all of the thoughts that one might not aware that they are thinking, or a persons natural instincts. One theory is that all human beings carry in them all the thoughts and feelings that have ever been thought or felt before by any other human beings. This theory can be proven through author’s interpretation of characters. In many different stories and books the same type of people and the same type of story shows up again and again. This shows that all humans perceive things in the same ways.

=The Wise Man=

The wise man is experienced because he is very old and has wisdom that the hero needs. The wise man of the story guides the hero through stories, riddles and myths, and cannot stay with the hero. The wise man is always an man. If a woman has experience she is shunned because she is a Impure Woman.

Tiresias
He was the wise man because he offers knowledge to Odysseus. Tiresias is old and fits the stereotype of an old man, and offers Odysseus knowledge.