Archetypes In The Movie 'Big Momma's House'

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Discuss how Jung’s archetypes show up in some of your favorite books, television shows, or movies.

One of my favorite movies, is “Big Momma’s House,” with Martin Lawrence as the main character. In this movie he was an FBI agent who poses as a woman to catch a bank robber who had escape from jail. If we referred to our book, this type of archetypes was a persona archetype. Therefore, this is where a person hides behind a mask, pretending to be someone different than who they really are. In this movie he used, “Hattie Mae Pierce,” as the character to hide behind to get close to her granddaughter, who was the bank robber girlfriend at the time of the robber. By hiding behind this mask, no one knew the real person Malcolm Turner, who was also