Archetypes In The Grinch
Excellent job on your analysis, there were a lot of interesting points made. However, I believe an archetypal lens best suits this poem because it factors in the ending, characters, and themes. At the end of the poem, the Grinch relinquishes all the stolen goods because he is touched by the spirit of Christmas. Within a Marxist context, the Grinch was stealing in order to abolish the class structure, and to sustain himself. However, he takes more than necessary and readily relinquishes it, proving that he is not stealing out of desperation but because he is evil. An archetypal lens considers this ending, which suits the thematic archetype of redemption very well. Moreover, the usage of archetypes to establish each character as good or evil