The next stage of our magical writers journey involves fleshing out the characters. For this Vogler has drawn on some of the ideas of Carl Jung about archetypes. My initial reaction is to be a little cynical of this idea, it seems to me that whenever writing teachers or personality testers want to avoid having their ideas criticized as being cliched and bullshit they always bring out a bit of Jung to give them weight.
Now maybe i'm in a bit of a cranky mood because it's 1am and I just ate slices of toast with only butter on them because there was nothing better in the flat but i'm going to set up the premise for this next stage and then stop for the night.
The archetypes we're going to play with are;
Hero
Mentor
Threshold Guardian
Herald
Shapeshifter
Shadow
Ally
Trickster
Vogler says the following should be your guide;
"Two questions are helpful for a writer trying to identify the nature of an archetype: 1) What psychological function or part of the personality does it represent? and 2) What is it's dramatic function in the story?"
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