Other than the cycle of expectation, doubt, reality, and
relief, there is something else that we can learn from archetype in story. It
is the relation between mentor and shadow. Previously, I said that mentor and
shadow work to drive moving forward. Without them, the hero in the story will
not have a willingness to do an adventure. In our life, mentor and shadow is
the representation of good and bad, right and wrong, positive and negative, all
the things that work in contrast, with each is located at the opposite side of
the spectrum and always fight with each other. In a story, usually, at the end
of it we will see either mentor won over shadow or the opposite (most of the
time it was the former). Similarly, in our life we always believe or being told
that the right would eventually win in the end. If this is the nature of the
interaction of mentor and shadow, the right and wrong, where they always fight
between themselves and in the end there is only one which become a winner, this
create a question. Is it true?
