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Ivan

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« on: April 17, 2004, 10:29:30 PM »
All literature is piled high with archetypes.  What are some archetypes you have noticed in Dostoevsky's work?

Archetype: An original model or type after which other similar things are patterned; a prototype: “‘Frankenstein’... ‘Dracula’... ‘Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde’... the archetypes that have influenced all subsequent horror stories” (New York Times).

It's a crude definition but it works  Smiley
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« Reply #1 on: April 17, 2004, 10:31:17 PM »
I actually just finished reading Christopher Marlowe's play, Doctor Faustus and I am totally convinced that Dostoevsky based his Crime and Punishment around it.

Has anyone else read Faustus?  I think he is the early modern Raskolnikov.
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« Reply #2 on: April 17, 2004, 11:28:38 PM »
that is very true! I'm in the process of writing a bio for D for this site, where I explain this pretty carefully; but the gist (sp?) of it is that D loved cheap litereature...he consumed love stories, detective and gothic novels by the tons. Notice that his novels are "nothing" more than just that....only elevated into a metaphysical height which no other author could match  Wink
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« Reply #3 on: April 18, 2004, 11:55:47 AM »
So have you read Doctor Faustus or do you just agree that literature uses archetypes?

And I hope you are not referring to this play as "cheap literature"  Wink
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« Reply #4 on: April 23, 2004, 12:07:59 PM »
>>So have you read Doctor Faustus or do you just agree that literature uses archetypes?

No, I haven't - but I should pick it up!
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-Dante's Inferno,  C2 88-90
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