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Northrop Fry : The Archetypes of literature.

Harman Northrop Fry was a Canadian literary critic and literary theorist, considered one of the most influential of 20th century.

Archetypal literary criticism is concerned to analyzing the a text in concern to myth and archetype that could be in text in the form of description, symbol, image, allusions, reference, characteristics traits etc.

1. What  is Archetypal criticism ? What does the Archetypal critic do?

  

Archetypal means original form. It refers to universal symbol, theme, character, images. This all are represent throughout the literature. It is a team in which Frye's Archetypal criticism strictly categories work based on their genres which determine how archetype interpret in text.

Archetypal Critic would suggest that all human experience is connected through  literature and this experience is expressed again and again by using the same pattern throughout time and space. 

2. What is Frye trying to prove by giving an analogy of ' Physics to Nature ' and ' Criticism to Literature'

The physics is basically study of nature. But the students of physics never say that they study nature they all say that they study physics. Any one cannot able to teach or learn Literature. But what we learn is criticism. But though we say that we learn Literature. The way nature works for physics in the same manner criticism work for Literature.

3.Mention relation of literature with history and philosophy.

 " Literature is central division of humanities flanked on one side by history and other side by philosophy."  

Without two pillor of history and philosophy Literature is not possible. From history Literature gets the Events and from philosophy Literature gets the idea. 

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


Inductive method is about theory from perticulaer observation to general term. To expalie this term Fry give example of grave digger scene from Hamlet. Here is point which he mentioned in the scene. He explained how we found layers in one scene. Through this he explained how was the situation of that time.
  • Wilson knight and spurgeon group of critics listening to study rain of image of the corruption and decay. Ex:  when one skull came out gravedigger say that this skull is of  tailor then he also give reason of it and say that he may cut clothes for his child from other people cloth. 
  • Pans to soliloquie of Dance macabre (Dance of Death).
  • Phycological realtionship.
  • Genre: Elizabethen play, it's dramatic context, melodrama.
  • Glimes of an Archetypal libstod.(Libe: love, Tod : death.) Ex :  In this scene we found that Hemlet declare his love for Ophelia. After this confaction his struggle with larates. And this become sealing of his own fate.
5.  Briefly explain deductive method with reference to an analogy to Music, Painting, rhythm and pattern. Give examples of the outcome of deductive method.

When Fry explain deductive method he talk about the music and painting. He say that some art move in time that is music. Because when you listen music you have to wait till the time song complete. Then only you able to get pleasure form it. And music is in Rhythm. If you want to connect music with literature you can connect it with the narrative. 

Then he said that some art move in specs. That time he talk about the painting. He says that when you look at painting you by that time only you get pleasure. Painting is scene by pattern. Pattern is connected with mental grasp of verbal structure and meaning significance. 

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. 



In this poem we found two season one is " pankhar" and  second is " vsant ". The first line say that ant ma aarambh this thing we connect with the season 'pankhar' we found that after this season there is season of ' vasnt' that all the leaves which go in season of pankahr will come back in season of. Vasnt. This think we see in first line only. That is why he say in first line ' ant ma armbh ane armbh ma ant.' 

Literature and religion is interconnected. Because when we look at the idea of the Religion it connected with the myth. Without myth there can be no religion. So we can see that may all this myth as just a story.  Myth are the thing which is created by us. 






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