Discover Writers Like Chris Moore. Archetypes vs Cliche : My husband, Mr. Al, and I were discussing the plot line of a TV show recently when the topic turned to the differences between Archetypes and Cliche. Seems like a lot of writers confuse the two, especially when angsting over their own work. I’ve stumbled across a very simple way to tell the difference. The archetype is the underlying idea.
This sounds a bit like I think cliche is limited to wording while anything on an idea level is an archetype. For instance, you might expect a book with the title The Greek Millionaire’s Secret Baby to have a stereotypical plot. Is a secret baby cliche? Do any of us really want to read yet another book in which the old flame of some rich guy turns up with his child and causes him to get angry because he didn’t know? Why? Consider the moment Darth Vader said, “Luke, I am your father.”
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