I think Charlotte is a mentor archetype.Charlotte shows all the signs of being the mentor archetype. the mentor archetype is someone who assists the hero in some way, and symbolizes wisdom, knowledge, and experience.
Charlotte obviously helps wilbur, in several ways. most clearly she helps him by saving his life. She spins webs that say how cool he is, and the farmers see it and decide not to kill him because they think its a miracle. But she also helps him mature as a person. she is there to guide him toward the more grown up path, like when she calms wilbur when he is freaking out about the idea of him dying.
Charlotte symbolizes wisdom, experience and knowledge. she symbolizes wisdom by always being wise, calm, and collected. even when she knows she will die, she is calm and accepting. she symbolizes experience by the fact that she knows more about things then wilbur, because she is experienced. she symbolizes knowledge by knowing so much and so many little facts, from leg sections on a spider to the queensborough bridge.
she can be called a hero archetype as well, but i think charlotte is more a mentor then a hero. she acts that way in order to teach wilbur how to be the hero, and towards the end wilbur acts more heroic.
This is a good entry. I feel that you covered every, main archetype, but you only scratched the surface. You need to go deeper, not in context, but in voice. This may be a good entry, but it sounds like a computer wrote it(yes I know it did, but you know what i mean). We need to here some of that Eamon Callahan feel in your blogs. Go deeper, not just in thought, but in voice. Keep up the good work!
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ReplyDeleteI thought this was a pretty good entry. You definetly covered evrything which was good. But here's where my point starts. You only covered it. I felt like I was reading,well, a retelling of what Charlotte does for Wilbur. It doesn't have any other opinions apart from thinking that Charlotte was an archetype of the mentor. The blog was good, but try to go deeper next time.