Monster



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.

Monster Archetype
There is a big difference between the Villain of the story and the monster of the story. The monster does not mean to cause harm to the hero but is by nature mean, big and overall very frightening, and will sometimes try to kill the hero.

Cyclops
Polyphemus was the cyclops that Odysseus ran into when he was trying to sailing home. He was the monster because he was trying to eat/kill Odysseus and his crew. Odysseus finally escaped when he injured and blinded Polyphemus eye and called himself nobody. He also showed weakness when he taunted Polyphemus and received a curse from Poseidon that kept him from returning home.