I Am Legend Archetypes Essay

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Dr. Tarver English II – 3A 29th January 2013 Archetypes of I am Legend I. Situational Archetype For the situational Archetype of I am Legend I chose the Task. The task refers to a possibly superhuman thing that must be completed in order to fulfill a complete goal. Robert Neville has the task to cure the disease to save mankind in its eternity and to restore order. This is superhuman because Robert has failed so many times in trying to cure it. An example of him trying to cure this disease is in his laboratory he has multiple rats that he is working on, he always has a human trying to be cured, and he has pictures of all of all the zombies that did not make it through testing. II. Symbolic Archetype For the symbolic Archetype of I am Legend I chose lightness vs. darkness. Light usually stands for hope and intellectual illumination, while darkness represents the unknown and ignorance. This is the battle between good and evil. In the movie when it gets dark, everything goes to hell, and in the day everything is fine. Robert shows hope…show more content…
The task often refers to a superhuman feat that has to be completed to finish the ultimate goal. The ultimate goal in the movie is to have fun in Las Vegas and get Doug back in time for his wedding, but when things go wrong and the four guys wake up and its time to leave for home, they all remember nothing and Doug is nowhere to be found. This is superhuman because all three of the guys don’t remember anything and they had very little time to find Doug. They find a single clue that one of them was in the hospital so they went to the hospital and based their entire search on that. The guys go through many things to find Doug and when they do they barely have any time to get to the wedding. The guys now have to drive extremely fast to get back home and even have to get tuxedos for the wedding from a car driving by to get on

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