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Orphan Black and the Heroine's Journey
Symbols, Depth Psychology, and the Feminist Epic
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Orphan Black
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Heroineâs Journey
Symbols, Depth Psychology, and the Feminist Epic
Valerie Estelle Frankel
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This book is an unauthorized analysis and commentary on Orphan Black and its associated products. None of the individuals or companies associated with the television show, comics, or any merchandise based on this series has in any way sponsored, approved, endorsed, or authorized this book.
Orphan Black and the Heroineâs Journey
By Valerie Estelle Frankel
Copyright © 2017 Valerie Estelle Frankel
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Contents
Introduction
Sarah
Beth
Helena
Alison
Krystal
Cosima
Veera
Rachel
Episodes
Works Cited
Introduction
One can watch the five-season epic of Orphan Black as a single heroine questing towards enlightenment, with different aspects of the same woman representing the inner voices of rationality, rebellion, ferocity, cold anger, and propriety. Smaller, quieter voices offer Bethâs paranoia, Tonyâs snarky defiance, M.K.âs terror, and Krystalâs lightness. Of course, Sarah is the willpower, the directed self. Her brother Felix calls her âthe glue thatâs holding us all togetherâ in âThe Antisocialism of Sexâ (407).
As a heroineâs journey text, Orphan Black is fascinating. Rarely in fiction do five women all quest (with a few more like Beth, Krystal, and Veera going on abortive, simplified journeys). Arguably each has nearly a fair share of the story arc, casting them all as the storyâs central heroes. Far from static sidekicks, all grow and change. Moreover, their journeys often reflect, as Sarah and Helena each must accept the other in season one and return together from the symbolic underworld in season five. The heroines are not only questing for freedom, but for unity, binding together ever tighter in their Clone Club.
The heroineâs journey, like the heroâs journey popularized by Joseph Campbell, involves the central character metaphorically growing from child to adult by journeying into the underworld and facing dark forces that represent the tyrannical father and/or murderous mother â both inversions of the potential good parents the hero might become, after he or she has learned from these voices of the dark side. In fact, the shadow, as Jung calls the dark side of the self, is all the undesirable impulses one has repressed â greed, cruelty, anger. This side of the self reveals qualities the hero can see in other people but not in himself â âsuch things as egotism, mental laziness, and sloppiness; unreal fantasies, schemes, and plots; carelessness and cowardice; inordinate love of money and possessions â in short all the little sins about which he might have previouslyâ ignored in himself, explains Jungian analyst Marie Louise Von Franz (Individuation 174).
Still, the shadow side offers a surprising strength. Most often the fictional questor is the sweet, inexperienced adolescent â Dorothy Gale or Harry Potter â discovering the rage and power of the evil tyrant. However, other questors discover other lost parts of the self â the innocent theyâve long left behind or the sexual woman theyâve always repressed. Thus, the women of the series all undergo this journey as the story focuses on their meeting these lost shadow twins as much as it does on their struggle for autonomy.
The shadow need not be evil but simply polarized, as professional Beth and heedless Sarah have chosen contrasting paths. In fact, all of the clones are opposites, representing the different sides of the personality. Each time Sarah masquerades as Beth, she tries on her personality and borrows abilities sheâs never discovered in herself. As all the clones use this power, and also tangle with wicked matriarchs and patriarchs, they discover their own potential. The heroâs journey is about facing oneâs shadow â all one could have become but chose not to â and discovering oneâs hidden abilities. âA womanâs psychological development requires integration of many facets of her self in order for her to become a whole and healthy human being. When a woman is limited to only one or two roles, she can feel or act mad because the unactualized parts of herself are struggling to express themselves,â explains Linda Schierse Leonard in Meeting the Madwoman: Empowering the Feminine Spirit (4). This is the struggle all people face, embodied so directly through the many faces of Tatiana Maslany, the actress who plays them all.
This moment of learning proves true for the actress as well. âThereâs a large part of me in each of them. And a large part of myself is revealed in each of these characters,â she says (âSend in the Clonesâ). Through the series, the women all take each otherâs places, walking a mile in each otherâs shoes and discovering what it would be like to be so different. Maslany says of switching, âTheyâre playing, theyâre struggling, theyâre trying something on â theyâre not embodying themselves, theyâre putting on an act and they feel exposed and they feel that theyâre screwing up and like theyâre going to be caught out and theyâre going to be seen as a fraud and thatâs everything I feel when Iâm doing those scenes. And it is technically so confusing, but thatâs what is so fun about those scenesâ (Berstein 93).
Sarah, questing for her child as the epic heroine often does, learns love from Helena, domesticity from Alison, discipline from Beth. Cosima, whoâs dying from the illness they share, impresses responsibility on her. However, Sarah can only defeat the brutal corporations by playing Rachel, the dark insider clone who knows all their secrets and is willing to play dirty. Rachel, by contrast, spends five seasons setting herself above her sisters and ignoring their pleas to protect and join them. She does not step into their shoes, but by observing their love, finally chooses their side. In the same way, Sarahâs accepting Helena helps the madwoman emerge from religious conditioning. After, Helena becomes pregnant and quests to be a mother, but first she must defeat the shadow figure Virginia Coady, murderer of her own children, to absorb her terrible strength. At the same time, Alison grows from a place of denial and repression to a free spirit, finally comfortable with who she is. While Cosima is the best adjusted, contrasting lover-inspiratrices Delphine and Shay ...
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- Introduction
- Sarah
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APA 6 Citation
Frankel, V. E. (2018). Orphan Black and the Heroineâs Journey ([edition unavailable]). LitCrit Press. Retrieved from https://www.perlego.com/book/1656279/orphan-black-and-the-heroines-journey-symbols-depth-psychology-and-the-feminist-epic-pdf (Original work published 2018)
Chicago Citation
Frankel, Valerie Estelle. (2018) 2018. Orphan Black and the Heroineâs Journey. [Edition unavailable]. LitCrit Press. https://www.perlego.com/book/1656279/orphan-black-and-the-heroines-journey-symbols-depth-psychology-and-the-feminist-epic-pdf.
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Frankel, V. E. (2018) Orphan Black and the Heroineâs Journey. [edition unavailable]. LitCrit Press. Available at: https://www.perlego.com/book/1656279/orphan-black-and-the-heroines-journey-symbols-depth-psychology-and-the-feminist-epic-pdf (Accessed: 14 October 2022).
MLA 7 Citation
Frankel, Valerie Estelle. Orphan Black and the Heroineâs Journey. [edition unavailable]. LitCrit Press, 2018. Web. 14 Oct. 2022.