Father/son archetypal pattern

What is an Archetype? An archetype is a story pattern based on the idea of the collective unconscious. There are two parts of the mind, the conscious mind and the unconscious mind. The conscious mind is all that 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 father/son relationship archetype
When the son tries to push the "limits" placed on him by this father. The father does not want to recognize his son a being as strong as him because he fears that he will lose his value and become worthless and old. The best example of this is when Telemachus try to string Odysseus bow, and he would have done it on the 4th time if Odysseus had not told him to stop. This is a perfect example of Odysseus realizing that Telemachus can string the bow, and becoming afraid that he will not be the dominant male anymore.