Reproducing the Archetype of the Conflict between Good and Evil in Four Young Adult Novels Using the Method of Measuring Imagination by Gilbert Durand

The impact of archetypes on our individual and collective subconscious is powerful but invisible, and can shape our thinking and action. However, some of the archetypes have a deeper and wider impact on the collective psychology of a nation. This study aimed at indicating the ancient roots of this archetype and its transformations using Le Régime Diurne and Le Régime Nocturne by Gilbert Durand in three novels, namely Spell of the Dark City, Fortresses of the Akhulgheh Castle, and The Bandits. Finally, it was indicated that reproduction of this archetype in tales offers some ways of dealing with the world to the audience by over-simplifying the complexities of real world and human relations, and dividing everything into a dipole with irreplaceable immutable-eternal boundaries which involves incorrect judgments, extremism and intolerance towards different opinions and as a result of justified violence.