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An '''archetype''' is an original model on which something is patterned or based. The term is often used in [[literature]], [[architecture]] and the arts to refer to something that goes back to the fundamentals of the art. [[Shakespeare]], for example, is held up as containing many archetypal roles because he was the first that we know of to write them.
 
See also [[stereotype]].