ipl-logo

Jungian Archetypes In Fifth Business

316 Words2 Pages
Carl Jung once said that every individual has a shadow, which is the negative part of our personality.
In the novel, Fifth Business written by Robertson Davies dedicate the connotation of life through Jungian archetypes. Primarily in the beginning of the novel, Percy Boy Staunton obscure the stone inside of a snowball and pitched it to Dunstan Ramsay due to his anger. Dunstan Ramsay elude and dodge the snowball and accidentally hit Mary Dempster. The pregnant Mary Dempster delivers a malformed and unnaturally small new born child. That single moment of her life causes signification to compel and defy their own personal devil. In the same way, in Mary Shelley’s novel, Frankenstein; the modern Prometheus, Victor Frankenstein’s ultimate accomplishment
Open Document