Archetypal criticism

Hello everyone,

My Today's blog is about archetypal reading of literature and art.  Northrop frye give an essay on archetypal reading of literature. How archetypal find out the cultural pattern of literature , as part of thinking activity i write this blog assigned by Dilip Barad sir

A) What is archetype ?

The original pattern or model of which all things of the same type are representations or copies :  PROTOTYPE

1) what is archetypal criticism? What does the archetypal criticism do?

Archetype is an pattern' but one can question that which kind of pattern, so archetype is try to figure out the reality, means complex reality of the world by the some myths and history. Our ancestors gave us some stories to understand the reality so through that archetype try to find out the pattern or structure ot the particular work. 

Archetype tries to find out the way of literature. 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. Archetypes are the unknowable basic forms personified or concretized in recurring images, symbols, or patterns which may include motifs such as the quest or the heavenly ascent, recognizable character types such as the trickster or the hero, symbols such as the apple or snake, or situation such as graveyard and temple all laden with meaning already when employed in a particular work.

But as we know that literature is always concerne about newness but there is change of diction - choice of words make it different but structure of it remains same.

So basically archetype criticism tries to do prediction that there is that so this thing can be happened and it's became true mostly.

For example symbol of Day :- Day is symbol of positivity,  and night is symbol of negativity so through that one can get idea when they so such kind of symbols in literature.

2) What is Frye trying to prove by giving an analogy of physics to nature and criticism to literature?

By giving an analogy of physics or nature Frye want to say that we know every subject somewhere connect with the nature but we can't say that we study nature instead we say we study physics. We know physics is all about human nature and how human body work but we didn't use nature as subject, just like that we say that we study literature but in this what we do , we do criticism of literature one or another way but we never use that we study criticism instead of literature. Though we can't study literature,  we just criticised it to learn it. And Frey also compare every seasons with emotions of human like

 

1) Spring :- Comedy

2)Summer - Romance

3)Autumn - Tragedy

4)Winter - Irony & Satire

So we can't study any subject without nature because nature is always part physics and we never say that we study criticism though we study criticism In literature but literature is an individual branch.

3) Share your views of Criticism as an organised body of knowledge. Mention relation of literature with history and philosophy.

As Northrop frye says literature is the central division of 'humanities', so for the study of literature students have to read history for finding events and also try see Philosophy for the ideas as we know that history connect with the events and philosophy with the ideas. Because in literature sentimental and casual judgement are not allowed in critical reading. 

4)Briefly explain inductive method with illustration of Shakespeare's Hamlet's Grave Digger's scene.

Inductive mathod is using particular facts and from specific to general.

When the Grave Digger's scene of Hamlet arise May audience alredy knows that now something going to bad because the Mineral Structure of Scene is Tragic a grave and also a darkness and cold wind of autumn shows the sign of tragedy. Thus these are the some specific examples from that scene which is lead towards general. So this is inductive method in which from the conversation of  both the digger we came to know about one general observation that something bad has happened.

5) Briefly explain deductive method with reference to an analogy to music, painting, rhythm and pattern. Give examples of the outcome of deductive method.

Deductive method is something in which we are observing general things first and then from that observation we are moving towards something specific. In music we have rhythm and it takes time to understand and in painting it has patterns which can be understand in one glance. Music travel in time and painting is in space. Literature has both like when we start read something it takes time to complete and appreciate like music but when we complete reading we can see the whole picture of that book or anything which we read in front of our eyes like painting, so from this deductive method we come to know that literature moves in time and also it is space. In literature meaning, theme and setting are the rythm of the literature.

6) Refer to the Indian seasonal grid (below). If you can, please read small Gujarati or Hindi or English poem from the archetypal approach and apply Indian seasonal grid in the interpretation. 

 As per Indian seasonal grid we have six seasons.

They are: -

1.) Vasant Ritu - Spring

2.) Grishma Ritu - Summer

3.) Varsha Ritu - Monsoon

4.) Sharad Ritu - Autumn

5.) Hemant Ritu - Pre-winter

6.) Shishir / Shita Ritu - Winter

Happy Winter

બે હાથ મસળતા થોડોક ગરમાવો શરૂ થયો, ફૂલગુલાબી ઠંડી આવીને શિયાળો શરૂ થયો,

ફ્રીજના બાટલા માટલાંની પાસે ગોઠવાયા, તજ સૂંઠથી ભરપૂર કાવોને ઉકાળો શરૂ થયો,

બત્તીનો પ્રકાશ હવે સહેજ ધૂંધળો લાગે, ધૂળ ધૂમમ્સ ભેગા મળ્યા કે ધુમાડો શરૂ થયો,

શેકાતો બફાતો સૂરજ સહેજ ઠંડો પડ્યો, ગોઠવેલા તાપણાંનો તાપ હુંફાળો શરૂ થયો,

સવારની નીંદર વધુ મજાની લાગવા લાગી, રજાઈનો એ સ્પર્શ: વધુ સુંવાળો શરૂ થયો,

બે હાથ મસળતા થોડોક ગરમાવો શરૂ થયો, ફૂલગુલાબી ઠંડી આવીને શિયાળો શરૂ થયો. - નિશાંક મોદી

In this poem we find that speaker talked about the winter in which we feel coldness everywhere and many other things and we also found that tone of this poem is positive tone and speaker praise the winter's season.

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