In the Middle Ages, the Mummers Play was a traditional British folk play performed during the festive gatherings of both urban and rural communities and contained many of the archetypal elements of the contemporary pantomime such as stage fights, coarse humour and fantastic creatures.
Told from the perspectives of slaves and Confederate and Union soldiers, the production arranges its archetypal elements into confoundingly static patterns, laying out all its cards in its opening minutes and then failing to shuffle them in ways that might build to revelation or strong emotional response.
Like fantasies of Hollywood stardom, modeling contains the archetypal elements of discovery, transformation and escape from an imperfect life into a world of riches and fame.
Every manifest force or form is seen to express one of the four archetypal elements - Earth, Air, Fire and Water - or several in combination.
Even people who aren't building a house or constructing a database are fascinated by "A Pattern Language," a recipe book of "patterns," or archetypal elements that can be combined to form a structure as small as a desk or sitting area or as large as a city or region.
But the film's basic situation - local residents and community activists vs. the development schemes of major politicians and big business - is an archetypal element of urban life, one that can be found in almost any city, large or small, from Maine to California.
Looking at these compositions, one thinks of early Modernist pioneers who found intimations of spirituality in the archetypal elements of design.
Within the Faerie Queene, Spenser blurs the distinction between archetypal and historical elements deliberately.
The song has typical archetypal elements of the separated lovers, the interrupted wedding, and the inconsolable rejected lover.
The show arranges its archetypal elements into confoundingly static patterns, laying out all its cards in its opening minutes and then failing to combine them in ways that would build to revelation or strong emotional response.