Whilst watching The Princess Bride we studied the Twelve Jungian Archetypes, which essentially links every characters personality to just twelve general personality traits. Using the human psyche as a reference. For example, innocent personalities, outlaws and rulers. This theory was created by a man called Carl Jung, who stated that every human tends to have one of the twelve archetypes within them and it is the root cause of our personalities (at a basic level). The archetypes each follow a unconscious motivation for our behaviours as people.
Jung then separated the twelve archetypes into four groups to show the typical goals in life the archetypes would try and achieve. For instance someone with an archetype of either: safety, understanding or freedom would typically have a goal of one day being in a paradise of sorts and being able to live in there own ideal worlds and bubbles.
In the Princess Bride you can see this theory works well in describing the baseline of all characters within the film. Like how Vizzini; who is the leader of the group attempting to steal the Princess acts as the Jester and Buttercup; who is the main plot device in the film, who marries for political reason and constantly longs for Westley who she believes to be dead but, actually isn't. Falls under the Damsel in Distress category.
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