Pure woman

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.

Pure woman archetype
The pure woman of the story has a lot of valuable information that the hero needs to continue on his journey, although sometimes the pure woman is the motivation for the hero to get home. Unlike the Impure woman the pure woman is accepted by society, but also lives on the outskirts of civilization. The pure woman is usually the wife, sister or mother of the hero.

Penelope
Penelope is the pure woman of The Odyssey, because she is the wife of the hero, Odysseus and when the suitors are trying to make her marry one of them, but she is not letting them because she is devoted to Odysseus, and has been even though he has been gone for 20 long years.