Archetypes, Campbell vs. Pearson
Within Pearson's The Hero Within and Campbell's The Hero With aThousand Faces there is much attention paid to the archetype of theInnocent. Though the works are very different in focus, Pearson's workbeing more an establishment of real life, modern patterns associated withreal psychological development within real individuals and Campbell's workconversely a representation of psychological processes as they are appliedto literature and characterization. Though the Campbell work intends tolead the reader to wonder how the works applies to the real, it is only bysecondary causation, while Pearson intends to give insight to the realperson through the direct application of demonstration of thoughts and actsof the archetypes, present in us all. The treatment of the Innocent archetype is very similar throughoutboth of the works. The Innocent is a temporary state of psychologicalprogress. Though the Innocent, in a sense reestablishes itself as a
91) Within Campbell's first examples theinnocent princess assumes that the service of the frog is hers to havefreely, without the fulfillment of her own promise. As apprehended by the mystic it marks what has been termed "the awakening of the self. When something that she loves is suddenly takenfrom her she is inconsolable. " In the case of the princess in the fairy tale it signified no more than the coming of adolescence. She simply sits down and cries, until the hero (frog)comes to her aide. She does not consider her ability to help herselfbecause she has never had to consider, loss longing or grief, she is a truechildlike innocent. She does not try to regain possession of herbeloved golden ball. 49-51) In Pearson's work the Innocent is the child, who has yet to realizethat the world has an ugly side. In the opening pages of theCampbell work it is clear that the innocent princess is protected by theperfection of her world. That depravity is reality and thatperfection is not always available.
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