What is the difference between a traditional symbol and an archetypal symbol?

Traditional storytelling is character and plot centered. Archetypal storytelling focuses on questions of world, theme, motif, image, and symbol.

What do castles symbolize?

Castles represent authority, dominance, power, romance, safety, sovereignty, and wealth. In heraldry the castle is symbolic of grandeur, nobility, solidity, and strategy. In Sandplay – Silent Workshop of the Psyche, Bradway and McCoard view the castle as an androgynous symbol.

What is the Bible say about Jacob’s ladder?

The description of Jacob’s Ladder appears in Genesis 28:10–19: And Jacob went out from Beer-sheba, and went toward Haran. And he lighted upon the place, and tarried there all night, because the sun was set; and he took one of the stones of the place, and put it under his head, and lay down in that place to sleep.

Which symbolic archetype represents the place of decision penance or self denied?

The Crossroads: place of decision, self-denial.

What is the maze or labyrinth archetype?

A maze is an intricate network of paths which is multicursal and usually designed as a puzzle. Modernity appears to have lost something of what they symbolise of the labyrinth. The Maze/Labyrinth is one of the most resonant archetypal symbols of humanity and found across most cultures from different starting points.

What are examples of archetypal symbols?

Symbolic Archetypes

• Light – Hope or renewal.
• Dark – Despair or ignorance.
• Water – Birth and life.
• Haven – Safety.
• Wilderness – Danger.
• Fire – Knowledge, rebirth.
• Ice – Death, ignorance.
• Black – Evil, mystery.

What archetypal characters appear in the story?

Archetypal characters include the mother, father, child, god, wise old man/woman, trickster, and of course, the hero. Archetypal motifs are the apocalypse, the deluge, or the creation.

What does a sandcastle symbolize?

Through their play, the littluns are re-constructing something they saw back in civilization; as such, the sandcastles symbolize the civilization from which all the boys have come.

What does Glass Castle symbolize?

The Glass Castle symbolizes the illusions that Jeannette must release in order to fully mature. The illusion is, for Jeannette, definitively burst once Dad tells her to fill up the pit with garbage: the very idea, the dream itself, has become no more than a receptacle for trash.