Blog Post 9

In the film “Stardust” the main character could be looked as the “The Lover” Archetype. In the beginning he is in love with a girl named Victoria. She tells him to find a shooting star for her and she would marry him. Tristan’s goes on a adventure to find the star which is named Yvaine. What Tristan did not know was that he eventually was going to fall in love Yvaine. He didn’t know that his whole adventure trying to get Yvaine back to Victoria was an adventure he did not regret. He didn’t like Victoria for her selfishness. Yvaine was the girl of his dreams, even though Yvaine could not cross over to the other side over the wall because she was a star. All the struggles that Tristan had to go through just to save Yvaine from everyone were important because it showed how much love Tristan had for Yvaine. Tristan had to risk his life in order to save Yvaine. Even though at the end of the film he didn’t really care for her and just wanted to get back to Victoria he then realized how much she really meant to him. At the end of the movie Tristan goes back over the wall to become the King of Stormhold and marries Yvaine and they live on for a long time. This shows how “The Lover” archetype in Tristan’s role.