Northrope Frey

Thinking Activity

1. What is Archetypal Criticism? What does the archetypal critic do?

➤ Archetyple criticism is concerned with the cycle and reiterating patterns of Tradition,culture,patterns of action theme and images which are identity the varsity of works of literature as well as in myths,dreams and social rituals.so Archetypal it means represented things.The Archetypal critics find out the symbols and Archetypal images which recurrently happen in the literature.

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

➤ Physics is an organized body of knowledge about nature but student of physics says that they are learning physics not nature. Criticism to literature Frye tries to prove that ideas of art like nature, that is a methodical study and has to be distinguished from the study itself, literature it to behave like a science, there is surely no reason why criticism, as a systematic and organized study.

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

➤ History is collection of past and philosophy is collection of idea. And by applying philosophy in history criticism deals with botg history and philosophy.

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

➤ Shakespeare’s  play Hamlet in which Grave digging scene. we can applied inductive method ,Hamlet’s looking the yoric and and then step back with Horatio and coming front of Laertes because of his beloved Ophelia’s death in that scene we see Hamlet’s true love for Ophelia.This thing happened because he truly love originally play based on revenge theme but in this scene different type of love feeling come out. 

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 means from general to specific. Some are art like music,moves in time and some like paintings moves in space. Music has rhythm which is temporal and painting have pattern which is spacial. But all assets may be convinced both temporally and spatially. Literature seems in between music and painting. The rhythm of literature is narration and pattern is the meaning of deductive method.

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. 

➤ This poem is about spring season. Here we  see when spring season comes flower becomes full of life and people enjoys this season and sing a song. With this moment branches of trees also dance. Small children also enjoy flying kites.Here in poem discribe the season of rain .Happiness are there in the poem.Here poet say that rain season was come so all are happy and imagine that our childhood day will  poem birds are sing and flying in the sky.