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WorksheetsSituational Archetypes
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
A situation in which one loses the respect, love, power, possession and/or authority once held, and is sometimes exiled from the group. Often there is a rise again back to power or status afterward.
Rags to Riches
The Bachelor, any season
Fall
Initiation
A situation in which positive forces beat the odds to overcome negative forces.
Unhealable wound
Tim Gunn save
Humans vs Technology
Battle between Good and Evil
A situation in which a person not in authority or a person less educated is wiser than those in charge or who have had the benefit of more education.
Fall
Rags to Riches
Experience vs. Education
Spongebob vs. Squidward
The moment when a character develops awareness that the world is not what it seems.
Initiation
Rags to Riches
first bite of Burger King's Impossible burger
Fall
A physical or psychological injury that is painful and does not mend and cannot be eased. It is often associated with a loss of innocence.
Battle between good and evil
Initiation
Unhealable wound
Tooth fairy leaves you a nasty note under pillow instead of money
Situation in which someone starts out poor and becomes wealthy or someone has money but isn't happy in life and in the end gives up money for happiness.
Rags to Riches
Fall
Initiation
Unhealable wound
The search for something (tangible or intangible) in order to restore the land or restore/renew the "kingdom." It usually takes a long time and is very difficult, with physical and mental challenges that must be solved. Often resulting in self-knowledge.
Answers to common core math problems
Humans vs. Technology
Battle between Good and Evil
Quest
A situation in which a character's original self dies and the character is reborn with a new outlook or purpose having abandoned his or her old thoughts and views.
unhealable wound
experience vs. education
quest
death and rebirth
Individual challenges (mental or physical) that must be completed, often something extremely challenging or involving superhuman strength. Differs from Quest because it is a single challenge and maybe not over a long period of time.
Intermittent fasting diet
task
Fall
zipping up pants after six months of quarantine
What is a situational archetype?
Circumstances that occur within a parallel universe or the Twilight Zone or similar, such as in a Walmart on Black Friday.
Circumstances that occur in the waiting room of a dental office especially if one hears screams and moans coming from within the treatment rooms.
Circumstances that occur within a story and follow a distinct pattern.
Circumstances that occur when someone yells "fire" in a crowded movie theater.
