The greatest pieces of literature would be nothing without their characters. This could be regarded as an obvious statement, of course stories cannot be made without the people — and sometimes animals ...

Fiction writers for centuries, and film makers in the modern era, have all recognized the dramatic value of character stereotypes - "standard" configurations of personality, behavior, or emotional ...

Archetypes are considered to be images with universal meanings attached to them (Stein, 1998). They are a widely used and beloved way of experiencing and discussing life, but also one of the most ...