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Professor Will Adams · Wadams5@valenciacollege.edu
East Campus – Building 2, Room 305 · Thursdays, 7:00 – 9:45 PM
Atlantis: The Lost Empire Film Response
Name: • Score: /50
Please answer the following questions in at least one full sentence each. Attach additional sheets if
needed.
1. Who is the hero or protagonist of the story?
What is the hero’s name?
2. Describe the “ordinary” world the hero
inhabits. Where is it? When is it?
3. What is the special circumstance of our hero’s
birth? How is it special?
4. How is our hero called to adventure? Is the
call coincidental or traumatic?
5. Who calls our hero to adventure? Describe the
messenger(s).
6. What is the adventure or quest our hero is
asked to undertake?
7. Does our hero accept or refuse the call to
adventure initially?
8. Which character(s) fulfill(s) the role(s) of
mentor(s) or supernatural helper(s)?
9. At what point does our hero cross the
threshold into the unknown world?
List & describe at least three tests or challenges
our hero must overcome after crossing the
threshold.
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13. Does our hero gain any new allies or friends?
Describe them.
14. What new skills, abilities, or knowledge does
our hero acquire to become a true hero?
15. What is the climax of the hero’s quest? Is the
hero victorious?
16. What is the reward or “elixir” the hero
receives for his victory?
17. Does the hero return home?
18. Based on the outcome of the hero’s journey,
which of the hero archetypes does the hero fit?

2. Answer these questions using the Archetypes
PowerPoint posted with this assignment on our
course page.
19. Which character serves as the Platonic Ideal
archetype? Explain the character’s traits that fit
that archetype.
20. Which character fulfills the Devil Figure
archetype? Describe the character’s traits that fit
that archetype.
21. Which character serves as the
Temptress/Black Goddess archetype? Explain
why the character fulfills that archetype.
22. Which character fulfills the Damsel in
Distress archetype? How does the character
fulfill that role?
23. What setting within the film embodies the
environmental archetype of darkness? What does
that setting indicate about the events that occur
there?
How does the film engage the conflicting
archetypes of nature vs. technology? Provide at
least two examples.
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