Garden Archetype

The Garden Archetype An archetype is an image, ideal, or pattern that has come to be considered a universal model. Archetypes are found in mythology, literature, and the arts, and are important factors in philosophy. There are several kinds of archetypes, however, there are six main archetypes that are prevalent in today’s literature and usually easy to recognize. The first of these archetypes and the one I will be discussing in this paper is …

…These passages from the book of Micah clearly portray the characteristics of the Garden archetype. The Garden archetype is a universal model, which is used to describe or define places, which are similar to the Garden of Eden. There are several characteristics of the Garden archetype that can be found in a vast number of works of literature, art, and philosophy. The examples that I provided all clearly portray the characteristics of the Garden archetype.