Avatar: Archetypes Within The Hero's Journey
Within the Hero’s journey, characters show the story and use emotions through, the journey, symbol’s enhance the stories’ or movies’ meaning. In this instance archetypes are used, archetypes are a recurring of characters and symbols in a study. A movie that consists a hero’s journey within the plot is Avatar written and directed by James Cameron in 2009. Avatar is about a paralyzed marine, Jake Sully, who is sent to Pandora after his twin brother Tommy, is killed. Jake serves as a substitute and is sent where the Na'vi inhabit. Once, he is on Pandora he meets Grace Augustine, who helps him through the movie. While he is an Avatar, he meets the Omaticaya and Neytiri, and learns their ways. Throughout the movie, he is working for the military,
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Through the movie, Avatar symbols are used to show a meaning to things and color affects matter too. Symbols used in the movie that helped propel the plot forward include the illustration of Jake with the wood sprites from the seeds of Eywa. In the movie, the wood sprites float down to Jake and make him look as if he is glowing, making him look like a Christ-like figure like in Rio De Janeiro’s Christ the savior. To quote the movie's script, “Jake--now a pulsing, glowing, fluttering, mass of light moves one hand slowly not wanting to break the spell. He studies one of the sprites dancing on his palm until…” (Page 43). The wood sprites propel the plot forward by showing the Christ-like figure by creating an image of him looking and being aglow; this foreshadows the fact that Jake will become the hero or warrior. Furthermore, this happens because this symbol helped approve him to become part of the Omaticaya clan, as outsiders are not allowed to join the clan or they could die as a result of coming to the clan itself. “Jake holds still, knowing he should be afraid-- but somehow he’s not. He spreads his arms, hands, body,” (Page 42). The symbol that has been used symbolizes Christ as in Rio De Janeiro, in turn, symbolizes redeeming because Christ in christianity came to redeem the people of their sins and teach them the ways of God, and Jake becomes the redeemer in Avatar as he protects and helps the Na’vi when the “sky people” threaten the home tree and the tree of
Through the movie, Avatar symbols are used to show a meaning to things and color affects matter too. Symbols used in the movie that helped propel the plot forward include the illustration of Jake with the wood sprites from the seeds of Eywa. In the movie, the wood sprites float down to Jake and make him look as if he is glowing, making him look like a Christ-like figure like in Rio De Janeiro’s Christ the savior. To quote the movie's script, “Jake--now a pulsing, glowing, fluttering, mass of light moves one hand slowly not wanting to break the spell. He studies one of the sprites dancing on his palm until…” (Page 43). The wood sprites propel the plot forward by showing the Christ-like figure by creating an image of him looking and being aglow; this foreshadows the fact that Jake will become the hero or warrior. Furthermore, this happens because this symbol helped approve him to become part of the Omaticaya clan, as outsiders are not allowed to join the clan or they could die as a result of coming to the clan itself. “Jake holds still, knowing he should be afraid-- but somehow he’s not. He spreads his arms, hands, body,” (Page 42). The symbol that has been used symbolizes Christ as in Rio De Janeiro, in turn, symbolizes redeeming because Christ in christianity came to redeem the people of their sins and teach them the ways of God, and Jake becomes the redeemer in Avatar as he protects and helps the Na’vi when the “sky people” threaten the home tree and the tree of