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Example sentences for: archetypes
How can you use “archetypes” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
We now have a panoply of archetypes we know and are, I think, already responding to.
Malinche and La Virgen de Guadalupe are two archetypes of womanhood in Mexico and in the Southwest, the whore and the virgin, who symbolize the precarious dilemma of being female.
Or consider Pee-wee's Playhouse . Pee-wee Herman minces about and becomes obviously infatuated with other male characters who conform to gay archetypes.
In the pulp fiction of Burroughs, as in pulp fiction of any period, timeless archetypes rub shoulders with the vulgar prejudices of the writer and his audience.
Carl Jung once observed that it is easier to discern the presence of archetypes from the collective subconscious in works of pulp fiction by writers such as H. Rider Haggard than it is in literary masterpieces.