Weekly Post #2 (Third term)

This week we've seen the archetypes proposed by Joseph Campbell and also the 17 stages of his monomyth. As this week's assignment my classmates and I have to apply this concepts to our life.

Archetypes

• Hero: I don't consider me the hero but since I am the one telling the story from my perspective I can fulfill it by being the protagonist.
• Mentor: I haven't learned from an specific person, everything I've learn is a compilation of all the people which surrounds me and also from my environment, but, if I had to choose an specific person to fulfill this archetype, it would be my dad the one. Even I haven't learned particularly anything from him (talking about how to do certain stuff), he is the one who taught me most of my values and principles with the ones I have lived.
• Threshold guardian: Since this archetype represents a character which protects the Special world  and its secrets from me, I don't think there is such thing, but, by the archetype's characteristics it could be fulfilled by God, but I'm not sure of believing in him and his existence.
• Herald: This archetype is represented in certain way by my mom. She is always asking the best of me and telling me about new challenges and new objectives I could accomplish. She also encourages to "keep going forward".
• Trickster and shapeshifter: This two archetypes fit perfectly to my sister. Most of the times, she tries to put my mom in a position in which she would be against me, but whenever she needs something from me, she would treat me in a different way, trying to gain my trust and therefore, obtain whatever she needs from me.
• Shadow: Even though I love my brother and I think he is one of the things that encourages me the most, I think he also fits into this archetype. This is because he representes some of the things I have always wanted but I've never been able to reach.

The hero's journey

Weekly Post #1 (Third Term)

All along last this we wrote an essay inspired by a song. In order to choose the song, we needed to be identified our "inner us" with the song.

During this activity I could see exemplified very easily the way feelings reflect immediately the way a story is written. Most of my classmates works were inspired by their deep and unknown feelings, feelings that are hard to be expressed talking, that's why instead, they are expressed in our stories. 

First, we chose the song, keeping in mind that it had to be instrumental (no lyrics) and that it had to be a song with the one we could easily identify ourselves. Then, we just started writing with no limits or any barriers that could limit ourselves, we just letted the ballpoint pen roll.

As I probably already said a couple of times before, literature is very often influenced by the feelings of its author or by the events happening in the environment in which the story is being written. Just as this, our stories were directly influenced by our emotions and feelings produced while writing, which most of the time abound our mind and take over our motor capabilities, writing without something enough capable of stopping us. 

Weekly Post #3 (Second Term)

While reading Faust, I now can say some faults and virtues of Mephistopheles, Faust and Margaret.

• Mephistopheles:
• He is Faust's antagonist. As a master of disguise, he appears always in the play as someone else. He is the reason for Faust being attracted to Margaret.
• In my opinion, Mephistopheles controls and manipulate Faust in his own ways, for his selfish ends.

• Margaret:
• She is completely the counter part of Faust, she is the foil of Faust. Faust is attracted by this part different from what he is and represents.
• She represents all the ethic code of humanity. Her pureness is symbolic to the rules of religion, which most of the humans are terribly attached to.   

• Faust: 
• He is ambitious, he seeks more and more power and is always in seek of more knowledge, but he is also empty from "the inside". His corruptness caused by knowledge, made him not care about filling that hollow space. 
• Somehow, from my point of view, I can see some relation between Faust and humankind. Just as Faust, mankind is always seeking more power, men are ambitious and selfish, only caring about their aims, and only giving others importance, if he would get something in exchange.