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What is an archetype?

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a very typical example of a certain person or thing
one exampels is "the book is a perfect archetype of the genre
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Based on literature it is a character, story, or object that is based on a known character story.
Or it is an original Model of which all of the similar persons or objects are copied or emulated
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