Week Two: Worlds and Archetypes

From Star Wars Galaxy of Heroes Electronic Arts

We will begin with reviewing the Oz travelogue assignments so please post your assignment on your blog and send me the blog address before coming to class on Tuesday.

We will discuss archetypal characters and archetypal roles, primary and secondary worldsm, the act of sub-creation and the Star Wars storyverse and its archetypes. And we will conduct an excercise in creating archetypal characters in class.

Literary definition of archetype.

Take a quiz to find your archetype here:
http://www.archetypes.com/
Avoid the spam and clickbait on this site.

Reading Assignment: Read Ransom Riggs Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. 

Writing Assignment: Ransom Riggs wrote his novel to various antique photographs that he had collected. Using one of the sets of photos on the Course Resource Page, write a synopsis for a theme park world you create based on the photos in one set. You don't have to use all the photos in the set. Your account does not have to include a narrative or storyline, but should discuss some of the characters, the settings, and interactions between characters and between characters and elements of the setting. What are the most profound attractions of your world? What roles do some of the characters play and what role do the visitors to the world play? Your characters should be designed so as to be able to play archetypal roles in any narrative unfolding in your world.