The archetypal figure is often a figure that has the same characteristics and role throughout stories, but portrayed in different works and films. The archetypal figure has evolved in many works. The literary archetype is useful, in that, the archetypes are helpful in discussing characteristics and roles of many characters in myths. Carl Jung, a Swiss psychiatrist, believed that archetypes were models of people, behaviors, and personalities. Kipp Wheeler describes the examples of archetypes found in many cultures. These examples are reoccurring symbolic situations, reoccurring themes, reoccurring characters, symbolic colors, and reoccurring images. In almost all myths, these examples will be in the plot line of most journeys. These themes are portrayed in the archetypes, setting, or even cultural references in the myth. Also, T.S. Eliot states, "The pre-logical mentality persists in civilized man, but becomes available only to or through the poet." In this quotation, Eliot explains the juxtaposition of the "primordial image" and "prelogical mentality." Archetypes also help poets identify characters and character traits. Furthermore, Donna Rosenburg explains Jung and his followers view on myths and the importance of archetype. Rosenburg states, "Carl Jung and his followers...view myths as the expression of a universal, collective unconscious." In this quotation, Rosenburg analyzes Jung's and his followers take on myths. Without myths, there would be no development of archetypes. Historically, archetypes were told to portray stories; however, archetypes have become stereotypes and real life character traits. Jung also refers to the "myth of the hero as the most common and best known myth in the world." In expanding outside the hero archetype, there is also more influential characters that guide the hero in his journey. These characters are widely known as the adviser or the Wise Old Man. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wise_old_man