Everything has a base, or rather a stabilizer, that it builds on and around. Mathematics has place value, science the scientific method, and history the past. Fictional literature’s base is the archetypal patterns. In Humanities Through The Arts Carl Jung describes archetypal patterns as “the psychic residua of numberless experiences of the same type,” experiences which have happened not to the individual but to his ancestors, and of which the results are inherited in …showed first 75 words of 563 total…

…showed last 75 words of 563 total…entertaining ends with no detaining” (Book XV p387). Kalypso fulfilled her duties as the archetypal bad woman in Odyssey. She tempted the hero, destroyed the standards of the culture, and was very selfish. Of course she wasn’t the first. Eve set the stage, Kalypso only followed. In more modern fiction there is Scarlet O’Hara and even at this moment someone maybe setting their fingers to the keyboard to produce another archetypal bad woman.