You're quite the character!

Graham Hough's compass on discursive writing:
Allegory - Theme dominant; Image rhetorical, lifeless... road sign figures;

Incarnation - Theme and Image fused implicitly;

Realism - Image dominant, reporting;

and Symbolism - Theme and Image unity asserted to but only held through tension, religious acts and social pretenses.


Here is the Universe-encompassing polarization between theme and image. Image is all stimuli that we receive and Theme is all ideas we can/do/have become consciously aware of. Plato argued that we know all ideas, only they are innate and we are unaware of our knowledge. If we are capable of knowing everything, how do we decide where to begin? I can't consider the applications of extreme thematic dissonance, such as the eternally wandering thought, the mental tension necessary is unbearable and we would disengage. An entropic-assessment will be made.

So start simple.

Archetypes are idealized visions of personality groupings. We intuitively recognize when someone 'is a clown' but yet you can't measure 'humor', 'empathy', or 'cynicism' or other attributes that culminate into seeing someone as a clown. We lack a language to offer scale to these ideas/values. A character sphere's vertex is a point most distal. They are in radiant opposition to a character's gravitational center (self) yet focally applicable - we can attest to their appearance in others.

However we are more than a single idea, we are a continually-assessing, continually-revising, continually-redefining interplay between four archetype vertexes, the minimum structure of the self.