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Archetypal literary criticism: Northrop frye

Archetypal literary criticism : Northrop frye :  Que:1 What is Archetypal Criticism? What does the archetypal critic do?             Archetypal literary criticism is a type of analytical theory that interprets a text by focusing on recurring myths and archetypes in the narrative, symbols, images, and character types in literary works.            Archetypal criticism argues that archetypes determine the form and function of literary works, that a text's meaning is shaped by cultural and psychological myths.           Archetypal criticism also recurrent items from elemental and universal pattern in the human psyche. The Archetypal criticism means identifying pattern of action, characters type and theme in literature as well as in myth, dreams and social rituals.           Archetypal analysis represents each "individual" in a data set as a mixture of "in- dividuals of ...

Thinking activity on long day's journey into night

Here I am presenting my thinking activity on long day's journey into night :  (1) Can we say that this play's main themes is addiction, past memory, escapism ?                  The plot of Long Day's Journey into Night focuses on a dysfunctional family trying to come to grips with its ambivalent emotions in the face of serious familial problems, including drug addiction, moral degradation, deep-rooted fear and guilt, and life-threatening illness.  * Addiction ,past memory , escapism :               In the play O'Neil showcases how hard people will work to avoid confronting their guilt. This dynamic is most evident in the way Mary tries to keep her family from focusing on her addiction. Mary's morphine addiction is balanced by the men's alcoholism.  Although the morphine is perhaps a more destructive drug, alcohol does its fair share of damage to the Tyrone men. It is Tyrone's great vice, ...

Thinking activity on 1984

Here I am presenting my thinking activity on 1984  1. Explain in detail 'The Manipulation of the Human mind'.      In 1949, Eric Blair published one of the most thought-provoking books, 1984. Under his pseudonym, George Orwell became one of the most famous authors of his time.                 George Orwell expressed a society that had lost its ability to think for oneself. The Party in the book uses different methods to control every facet of their citizens.               In the process of doing that George Orwell portrays psychological torture and manipulation of human nature in 1984, in order to emphasize how the government retained complete sovereignty over the citizens.  The word Manipulation means handle or control a person or situation unscrupulously. In this novel government try to manipulation of the human mind.                In...

Thinking activity on the great Gatsby

Here I am presenting my thinking activity on the great Gatsby :      1) Explain in detail about"A Psychoanalytic attitude with the reference of "The Great Gatsby characters".  * The great Gatsby character :             The second stage proposes that three psychoanalytic core issues are identifiable in the character of Gatsby:  fear of abandonment, low self-esteem and insecure or unstable sense of self .             The Great Gatsby is an example of the American Dream in which people begin to seek out pleasure and power instead of  individualism. Wealth is easy to come and it is used as a tool to obtain other desire.                              According to the father of psychology Sigmund Freud, the unconscious mind (or the unconscious) consists of the processes in the mind that occurs automatically and is not availabl...

Thinking activity on Orlando: A biography

Here I am presenting my thinking activity on Orlando .   1)   How you look on Metamorphosis, and space of desire in Orlando and " The third space" how it's define or narrate in Orlando ? Metamorphosis:    In a time of war when people were dying, one women was worried about keeping the thing she loved the most alive, literature. During the World War I literature was starting to die off, and something had to be done, literature needed to evolve and change with the time.           The tragedy caused grief, but Virginia Woolf wanted to break the old customs of people, and make them more open minded.           As a woman doing a job that didn’t involve being a housewife or cleaning was not easy, so for Virginia to pursue a career in literature it took bravery. She opened an immense door for future writers who did not follow the old mentality of their predecessors, who wanted to change literature so that it could...

An Artist of the Floating World - Kazuo Ishiguro

Here I am presenting my thinking activity on an Artist of the floating world : Kazuo Ishiguro:  * An Artist of the Floating World -   Kazuo Ishiguro : -1. Sculpting Historiography as a narrative technique in " An Artist of the Floating World". Give your point of view on this narrative technique.       * Narrative Flow of the novel     narrative of the novel has been set between October 1948 and June 1950.         An Artist of the Floating World novel is told the story by first person narrative. Masuji Ono is narrator of the novel. In this novel we see sculpting historiography as a narrative technique.            In which the word sculpting means creating or representing something by carving or other shaping techniques. Historiography means the writing of history. I this novel we see Masuji Ono narrates his story by this sculpting his...

Thinking activity on waste land

  * The waste land :             1)The Waste Land' is an epic of the modern times. Discuss it with the illustrations from the text.       The waste land considered as a modern epic of the English literature. The best example of modernist literature is T. S. Eliot's “The waste land”. Throughout this poem Eliot shows us the real image of culture and society after the World War 1 and 2           This poem depicts an image of the modern world through the perspective of a man finding himself hopeless and confused about the condition of the society. “The waste land illustrates the contemporary waste land as a metaphor of modern Europe.”                 Eliot’s the waste land is very hard to describe and analysis because this poem mainly deals with the idea of modern age and its new technique. In this poem the waste land there are so many features and influence of the modern ...