Lakia Lewis
English 102
Dr. C. Jason Smith
7 June 2010
Fallen was written by Lauren Kate, who was born in Dallas. She went to school in Atlanta and started writing in New York. Her first book was, The Betrayal Of Natalie Hargrove, her second book, of course, is Fallen and she is currently working on her next book called Torment, which is the sequel to Fallen. Lauren lives in Laural Canyon, CA with her husband.
Fallen is about two teenagers, Lucinda Price and Daniel Grigori, who are doomed to fall in love with each other repeatedly. But there's something special about Daniel that, not only Luce, but almost the whole student body doesn't know that Daniel is a fallen angel. There's also a side story of how the fallen angels are apart of a long lasting war with each other, the Good angels versus the Bad angels.
The approach I plan on using is Archetypal Criticism. The main characters, Luce Price deals with shadows haunting her since she was 7 years old, while Daniel Grigori deals with falling for the same woman every 17 years. Both deal with Archetypal Criticism in there own way, but both deal with the same Archetypal, the death-rebirth myth. Daniel is doomed to fall in love with the same girl every 17 years and with a kiss she dies. Luce doesn't know about it yet but she's the woman that Daniel falls in love with every 17 years. With a kiss from him Luce dies, and is then reborn as a new person, and 17 years later she meets Daniel again. The reason why they're both doomed to this life is because one is a fallen angel while the other one is immortal. The death-rebirth myth was discovered by James G. Frazer, a Scottish anthropologist. Fallen follows Frazer's theory, death(Fall), rebirth(Spring). Lucinda's birthday between Spring and Summer, when she is reborn. After her 17Th birthday, she meets Daniel in the Fall which is close to her death. In the prologue, the Lucinda and Daniel at that time, it stated the year and the month which is September 1854, and September is when people start to harvest. So basically Frazer's theory goes along with the story: the death stage comes around the fall when the final crops are harvest while the rebirth stage comes around when you see the first sign of crops blooming.
In the novel Luce dealt with shadows all during her life. She started seeing them at the age of 7. Her parents thought that she was having eye problem so they sent her to the eye doctor, but she kept seeing these shadows. These shadows came so often that her parents took her to see a psychologist and they put her on medication to calm her down. But even the medication didn't stop these shadows from appearing. Jung states that people shadows appear to them in dreams or visions but in Fallen, Luce is never asleep when these shadows come about. Jung also states that the shadow has something to do with your unconscious mind but with Luce I believe that it has everything to do with the conscious mind. I agree with Jung about the shadow being darker than the person. in the novel Luce states that after her 17Th birthday she was these shadow creatures more. Even when she was around Daniel she saw the shadow creatures. So the shadow creatures could represent a warning about her becoming death and that is has something to so with Daniel. So we come to this conclusion, most of this novel follows Frazer theory more than Jung's theory.
Fallen is about two teenagers, Lucinda Price and Daniel Grigori, who are doomed to fall in love with each other repeatedly. But there's something special about Daniel that, not only Luce, but almost the whole student body doesn't know that Daniel is a fallen angel. There's also a side story of how the fallen angels are apart of a long lasting war with each other, the Good angels versus the Bad angels.
The approach I plan on using is Archetypal Criticism. The main characters, Luce Price deals with shadows haunting her since she was 7 years old, while Daniel Grigori deals with falling for the same woman every 17 years. Both deal with Archetypal Criticism in there own way, but both deal with the same Archetypal, the death-rebirth myth. Daniel is doomed to fall in love with the same girl every 17 years and with a kiss she dies. Luce doesn't know about it yet but she's the woman that Daniel falls in love with every 17 years. With a kiss from him Luce dies, and is then reborn as a new person, and 17 years later she meets Daniel again. The reason why they're both doomed to this life is because one is a fallen angel while the other one is immortal. The death-rebirth myth was discovered by James G. Frazer, a Scottish anthropologist. Fallen follows Frazer's theory, death(Fall), rebirth(Spring). Lucinda's birthday between Spring and Summer, when she is reborn. After her 17Th birthday, she meets Daniel in the Fall which is close to her death. In the prologue, the Lucinda and Daniel at that time, it stated the year and the month which is September 1854, and September is when people start to harvest. So basically Frazer's theory goes along with the story: the death stage comes around the fall when the final crops are harvest while the rebirth stage comes around when you see the first sign of crops blooming.
In the novel Luce dealt with shadows all during her life. She started seeing them at the age of 7. Her parents thought that she was having eye problem so they sent her to the eye doctor, but she kept seeing these shadows. These shadows came so often that her parents took her to see a psychologist and they put her on medication to calm her down. But even the medication didn't stop these shadows from appearing. Jung states that people shadows appear to them in dreams or visions but in Fallen, Luce is never asleep when these shadows come about. Jung also states that the shadow has something to do with your unconscious mind but with Luce I believe that it has everything to do with the conscious mind. I agree with Jung about the shadow being darker than the person. in the novel Luce states that after her 17Th birthday she was these shadow creatures more. Even when she was around Daniel she saw the shadow creatures. So the shadow creatures could represent a warning about her becoming death and that is has something to so with Daniel. So we come to this conclusion, most of this novel follows Frazer theory more than Jung's theory.
Works Cited
Kate, Lauren Fallen. New York: Delacorte Press: Random House, 2009. Print.
"Archetypal literary criticism ." Wikepedia, 26 May 2010. Web. 13 June 2010
"Shadow (Psychology)." Wikepedia, 6 June 2010. Web. 13 June 2010
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