Here i have describe various use of archetype in Indian literature as well as in Western culture

1. Name:Ami Sojitra
Subject: LiteraryTheory And Critiism:20th Western
and Indian Poetics
Enroll no:PG15101034
Email: amisojitra23@gmail.com
College: Department of English, Maharaja
Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University
USE OF ARCHETYPE IN WESTERN AND
INDIAN LITERATURE:

2. WHAT IS ARCHETYPE:
 According to Northrop Frye:
“The term ‘Archetype’ denotes recurrent
narrative designs, patterns of action,
character-type, themes, and image in which
are identifiable in a wide variety of work of
literature as well as in myths, dreams, and
even social rituals”
Now lets discuss use of symbols in Indian and
Western literature

3. SYMBOLS IN LITERATURE:
Seasons

4. ANIMAL:SOME ANIMALS STAND FOR
COURAGE AND SOME FOR BAD SIGN
LIKE WOLVES:  Child of Shakuntala is
very little though he
live in Ashram he was
playing with cubs.

5. SYMBOL OF SERPENT: Serpent known for
seduce someone to do a wrong thing or
cause of fall
 Character of
Satan(Paradise-Lost)
 Character of
Manthara(Ramayana)

6. USE OF GARDEN AS ROMACE AND FOREST OR
GRAVEYARD AS HORROR OR SAD
 Shakuntala met
Dushyant in garden
which shows romance
and love
 Hamlet appear in grave
daggers scene which
shows something sad

7. USE OF MINERAL:SOME TEMPLE ,CITY
STANDS FOR LOVE WHILE DESERT STAND FOR
TRAGEDY
 Taj-Mahal as the
symbol of lovers.
 Desert is symbolically
described the tragedy
or the sadness.

8. Hero:Duryodhana and Achilles

9. TALE WITH MORALITY:
Greek stories in
Greek
Indian stories which
written in Sanskrit

10. THE OUTCAST:ONE HAVE TO LIVE
FORCIBLY OR VOLUNTARY:
 ‘Simon’ fromThe lord
of the flies
 Pandava(Mahabharat)

11. THE QUEST:SEARCH FOR KNOWINGLY OR
UNKNOWINGLY
 Pilgrim's Progress  Mirth of Savitri is an
Indian example the
quest

12. FEMME FATAL: WHO BRING
CATASTROPHY AND DISASTROUS EVENTS
 Eve has try to go
against of the god so
she is consider as fall of
human being.
 Surpankha fall in love
with Lakshmana and
so she has proposed
him.This is something
against the social rules
so she have to suffer.

13. USE OF BEAUTY OF WOMEN IS CAUSE
OF DESTROY
 The end of Lanka is
cause of
Sita(Ramayana)
 The end ofTroy is
cause of Helen.(Helen
of sparta)

14. COLOUR:SOME COLORS STANDS FOR
SOME SPECIAL CONTEXT
 Green color:  White color:
Muslim Indian
national flag:
greenery
Christian:
Marriage
Hindu:
Death
 Red color:
Romance
and love
Blood or
violence

15. TRIBAL AS NATIVE AND COLONISER
 Robinson Crusoe has
started ruled over
Friday
 Pandava has snatched
identity of Eklavya on
the name of cast

16. CROSSED LOVERS:THEY BECOME VERY FAMOUS
THOUGH THEY HAVE TRAGIC END AND THEY CAN
NEVER LIVE WITH EACH-OTHER
 Romeo-Juliet by
Shakespeare have
tragic end of lovers
 Heer-Ranjah byWaris
Shah have tragic end of
lovers

17. SCHOLARLLY TALENT HAVE NO
GEOGRAPHICAL BOUNDRIES
 Bharatmuni has given
‘Natyashastra’
 Aristotle has written
‘Poetics’

18. CONCLUSION
 By analyze all the characterization, animals,
colors, places, myth, and persons definitely
they belong to different state or different
geographical location or different time than
also the archetype remain same.

19. REFERENCE:
 Chellappan, Dr. K. "Archetype in indian literature."Triveni journal
India (n.d.).
 Defoe, Daniel. Robinson Crusoe.W.Taylor, 1719.
 Golding,William.The lord of Flies. Faber and Faber, 1954.
 Hamlet. Dir. Kenneth Branagh. Perf. Kenneth Branagh. 1996.
 K.Chellappan, Dr. "Archetypes in indian literature." (n.d.).
 Milton, John. Paradise lost. England: Samuel Simmons , 1667.
 Shakespeare,William. Romeo-Juliet. England, 1597.
 Valmiki. Ramayana. n.d.
 Vyas,Ved. Mahabharat. n.d.