• Joshua L
• Sam Surya S

“Film is a great tool to play with human emotions and thoughts” films are simply part of our daily life, different people from different culture from different part of the world can think same thing because they are connected to cinema. In early days in films the writers mainly focused on the stories related to the history and war, the setting of the characters is not given in a proper, the time and situation is irrelevant, later archetypes were introduced in the writings as well as in films it made huge change in exploring cinema and it makes stories into next level. In the beginning archetypes were used as images, symbols, and character type in literary works like poetry, later it extended in film writing the writers using archetype to draw a natural and unnatural mythic character, in today’s cinema archetypes plays an important role in character setting, themes, conflicts, plots, in films through this research paper I am going to analyse the archetypes that used in Tamil movies and features of the archetypes in film writing.

Archetypes, characters, symbols, cinema, myths, nature, films

"Critical Analysis on Archetypes and symbols used in films", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 9, page no.59-63, September-2021, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRFC06015.pdf

"Critical Analysis on Archetypes and symbols used in films", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 9, page no. pp59-63, September-2021, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRFC06015.pdf