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TRICKSTERAleksandra Sierka, Magdalena Zych
Trickster - definition1. someone who plays practical jokes on others2. someone who leads you to believe something
that is not true3. a mischievous supernatural being found in the
folklore of many primitive people; sometimes distinguished by prodigious biological drives and exaggerated bodily partsSource: http://www.visualthesaurus.com/
4. a person who tricks or cheats peopleSource: http://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/trickster
Features a boundary-crosser always at the edge, in between, opportunistic lies and steals to disturb the stablished categories of truth and
property an omniscient creator and an innocent fool fools and gets fooled a malicious destroyer and a childlike prankster creates order and chaos may teach humans the skills of survival keeps us from being too confident in ourselves; provokes insight a maverick (nonconformist, individualist; free thinker; loner)
Archetype - definition
1. A very typical example of a certain person or thing2. Psychoanalysis (In Jungian theory)
a primitive mental image inherited from the earliest human ancestors, and supposed to be present in the collective unconscious
3. A recurrent symbol or motif in literature, art, or mythologySource: http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/archetype
Jung's Archetypes
Jung listed four main forms of archetypes: The Shadow, The Anima, The Animus and The Self
Other archetypes: Family archetypes (the father, the mother, the child); Story archetypes (the hero, the maiden, the wise old man, the magician, the earth mother, the witch or sorceress, the trickster); Animal archetypes (the faithful dog, the enduring horse, the devios cat)
Source: http://changingminds.org/explanations/identity/jung_archetypes.htm
Which Jung Archetype Best Describes You?
http://www.playbuzz.com/benjaminbirely10/which-jung-archetype-best-describes-you
Mischevious (adjective) – maliciously or playfully annoyingRejection (noun) – denial, refusal, elimination, exclusionControl freak – a person who attempts to dictate how everything around them is done
Joseph Campbell’s Monomyth
The standard path of the mythological adventure of the hero is a magnification of the formula
represented in the rites of passage: separation--initiation--return: which might be named the
nuclear unit of the monomyth.
BUT!
Source: http://orias.berkeley.edu/hero/journeystages.pdf
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LOKImischief (noun) – trouble, prank, playfulnesstrickery (noun) – deception, joke, dishonestyliability (noun) – responsibility, dutyto disguise (verb) –
to change the appearance so as to conceal identity or mislead,
mare (noun) – a fully mature female horseto pit (verb) - to set in opposition or combatdwarf (noun) – a being that dwells in mountains
and in the earth, and is variously associated with wisdom, smithing, mining, and crafting
ambiguous (adj.) – of doubtful or uncertain natureally (noun) – associate, colleague, friend
HERMESboundary (noun) – barrier, border, edgelyre (noun) - a string instrumentdivine (adj.) – holy, spiritual, sacredstaff (noun) - a stickto outwit (verb) – to outsmart, deceivecrib (noun) - a child's bed with enclosed sides
ANANSIcunning (adj.) – devious, deceivingguile (noun) - slyness, clevernesssupposedly (adv.) – allegedly, probably, seeminglycrafty (adj.) - clever, smartslave (noun) -
a person who is the property of and wholly subject to another
VELEScattle (noun) - bovine animals like cowswealth (noun) - money, resources, propertysupreme (adj.) - greatest, principalcarnival (noun) – festival, outdoor celebrationsorcerer (noun) – wizard, alchemist, clairvoyantto depict (verb) – to describe, to presentlivestock (noun) -
the horses, cattle, sheep, and other useful animals kept or raised on afarm or ranch.
Storytelling (task)
Pick a trickster god (Loki, Hermes, Anansi, Veles)
VILLAIN / OBSTACLE / HERO
Create a story based on the chosen stages of the hero’s journey
Readingcome to blows - to have a fight or a serious argument with someonestrife (noun) – a conflict, angry or violent strugglemundane (adj.) – ordinary, banal, day-to-dayprofound (adj.) - intellectual, thoughtfulbitter (adj.) – harsh, resentful or cynicalsubterfuge (noun) – cheating, deception, ploytimid (adj.) – shy, frightened, modestcontrive (verb) - to invent, design, formilk (noun) - kind, typeself-delusion (noun) - the act of allowing yourself to believe something that is not truecrumble (verb) – to break or fall into piecesupheaval (noun) - major changeaforementioned (adj.) - mentioned beforeconfined (adj.) - limited, enclosedscrewball comedy - a romance between opposites, especially between an "idle rich", fun-loving
woman and a hard-working, practical, serious manextricate (verb) – to get out of a situationdeliberately (adv.) - intentionallyhavoc (noun) – chaos, chaotic situationinadvertent (adj.) – accidentaloutrageous (adj.) - very bad, horrible, shocking
Popular culture
Bugs Bunny
The Cheshire Cat
Fred and George Weasley
The Great Gazoo
Gregory House
Jack Sparrow
The Joker
Loki
The Mask
Peeves
The Pink Panther
Rumplestiltskin
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