Agatha :: Character Analysis, Brother Grimm

In familiar Grimms Brother Lustig, the main character, Brother Lustig, is initially visualised as an honest, untested and stupid young gay, who shares all his possessions with others. For this reason, when analyzing Brother Grimms tale assortment a Jungian psychoanalytic perspective, will become a choice example of a character experiencing individuation, for he last becomes a much selfish, wily and independent person. Through meeting his archetypes, Brother Lustig goes from an honest, stupid and free-handed person, who shares his wealth and possessions with the less fortunate ones to a cunning, selfish and self-sufficient trickster. Brother Lustigs burgeoning conscious is demonstrated through an analysis of his Jungian archetypes, with the shapeshifting beggar, performing as his positive shadow, and St. Peter personifying as his symbolic Self. An analysis if Lustigs positive shadow, St. Peter as the poor shapeshifting beggar, is particularly useful in understanding the v arious challenges which the main character of the story will eventually have to face later on. In the folk tale, the beggar is portrayed as a cunning and intelligent trickster, who changes his appearance every quantify he begged a gift form Lustig(368). Every time the disguised beggar placed himself in another shape and asks for charity, Brother Lustig will of all time fall in his trap and give him a quarter of the dawdle of his bread and one kreuzer (368), for he eventually have nothing left. By the end of the story, Brother Lustig becomes an intelligent trickster, up to(p) of surviving alone convey to his ability to smart and trick other people. In this context. It is evident that St.Peter as the shapeshifting beggar is a positive shadow since he embodies the qualities that the independent and giving up Lustig needs. By becoming more selfish and cunning, Lustig is finally capable of helping people by using his intelligence against the nine devils(376) by putting them in his knapsack(376). By the end of the story, it becomes clear that his cunning and intelligence help him to become a more independent person capable of to survive without the help of others. He is no longer tricked by others and this shows clearly that he is on a further step towards individuation.The almost important step in Lustigs maturation to a man capable of surviving alone is the realization of Self, personified once again by St. Peter. Through his journey with St. Peter, Brother Lustig eventually maturates. At the very tooth root of the story, he was a stupid, honest, selfless soldier who does not care close how to survive the day after.