Archetypes:
1. Numbers
-"Three" pigs
-Represent light, spiritual awareness, unity (holy trinity), male principle
2. The Initiation
-The adolescent comes into his maturity with new awareness and problems
-Three pigs finding materials to make their houses
3. Battle between Good and Evil
-A battle between two primal forces. Man-kind shows eternal optimism in the continual portrayal of good triumphing over evil despite great odds
-The third pig tries to protect itself against the wolf
4. Young man from the provinces
-The hero returns to his home and heritage where he is a stranger who can see new problems and new solutions
-All three pigs are released into the world, and have to build themselves houses to protect themselves
5. The Shadow
-A worthy opponent with whom the hero must struggle in a fight to the end. Must be destroyed or neutralized. Physiologically can represent the darker side of the hero's own psyche
-The wolf versus the third pig. Since the wolf ate the other two pigs, the third pig, who built his house with the bricks, decides that he must kill the wolf
1. Numbers
-"Three" pigs
-Represent light, spiritual awareness, unity (holy trinity), male principle
2. The Initiation
-The adolescent comes into his maturity with new awareness and problems
-Three pigs finding materials to make their houses
3. Battle between Good and Evil
-A battle between two primal forces. Man-kind shows eternal optimism in the continual portrayal of good triumphing over evil despite great odds
-The third pig tries to protect itself against the wolf
4. Young man from the provinces
-The hero returns to his home and heritage where he is a stranger who can see new problems and new solutions
-All three pigs are released into the world, and have to build themselves houses to protect themselves
5. The Shadow
-A worthy opponent with whom the hero must struggle in a fight to the end. Must be destroyed or neutralized. Physiologically can represent the darker side of the hero's own psyche
-The wolf versus the third pig. Since the wolf ate the other two pigs, the third pig, who built his house with the bricks, decides that he must kill the wolf
Theme:
Hard work leads to success and favorable outcomes.
Hard work leads to success and favorable outcomes.
Motifs:
-The lines
"Little pig, little pig, let me come in.'
'No, no, by the hair of my chiny chin chin'
Then I'll huff, and I'll puff, and I'll blow your house in."
are always repeated by the wolf
-When the wolf was planning to eat the pig, he tells him to meet him somewhere and at a specific time, but the pig goes to the place and does what they would have done together, but an hour in advance to their planned time.
-The lines
"Little pig, little pig, let me come in.'
'No, no, by the hair of my chiny chin chin'
Then I'll huff, and I'll puff, and I'll blow your house in."
are always repeated by the wolf
-When the wolf was planning to eat the pig, he tells him to meet him somewhere and at a specific time, but the pig goes to the place and does what they would have done together, but an hour in advance to their planned time.