Everything has a base, or rather a stabilizer, that it builds on and around. Mathematics has place value, science the scientific method, and history the past. Fictional literature's base is the archetypal patterns. In Humanities Through The Arts Carl Jung describes archetypal patterns as "the psychic residua of numberless experiences of the same type," experiences which have happened not to the individual but to his ancestors, and of which the results are inherited in the structure of the brain(231). Whatever their mysterious beginnings were, the archetypal patterns can be found in the earliest of literature. Homer's Odyssey has an abundance of archetypal women patterns. Penelope the good woman, Athena the soul mate, and Kalypso the bad woman.
But Kalypso is the velvet soup bone the muse gave Homer to start the story brewing. She is a egocentric sea
Eve set the stage, Kalypso only followed. In more modern fiction there is Scarlet O'Hara and even at this moment someone maybe setting their fingers to the keyboard to produce another archetypal bad woman.
Kalypso fulfilled her duties as the archetypal bad woman in Odyssey. She tempted the hero, destroyed the standards of the culture, and was very selfish. Of course she wasn't the first.
nymph, corrupt and seductive; all the things an archetypal bad girl needs to be. We learn at the start that Kalypso is holding Odysseus on her island and will not let him leave. Dear Athena pleads Odysseus's case, and Hermes has been sent to deliver the verdict.
It seems most bad girls can't help themselves when it comes to being bad. After Kalypso had provided everything Odysseus needed for his voyage home and they had enjoyed one last pleasure feast, temptation to temp
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