Streszczenie:
The publication of John Milton’s Paradise Lost has effectively reopened the partly
forsaken ‘box’ with archetypes so as to trigger novel philosophical, religious and literary
reflection upon their indispensable value in constructing the narrative framework. Its major
value has also been generally perceived as taking apart the deck of traditionally placed
emphases on those narrative phenomena and, after their extensive reordering, as stimulating
an increase of crops in a field that has already proved so fertile in the past but has,
unfortunately, become slightly abandoned. It facilitates the comprehension of archetypes as
“the basic and supposedly universal preoccupations of humanity which are thought to inhere
in the very structure of the soul, and of which the varieties of cultures with their different
mythologies, imageries and concepts, are typical expressions” (Werblowsky, xiii); the literary
figures acting not only as intermittent symbols, motifs or myths in literature, mythology or
culture, but also as bare structures, unfilled patterns or theoretical possibilities, without any
content, indicating the chance of loading the given outline with an imaginable, substantial and
nameable content of some specified action, thought or perception.
