5 January 2020

Thinking Activity: Northrop Frye



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Maharaja Krishnakumar Singhji Bhavnagar University, Head of English Department Dr. Dilip Barad gave this work to students through blogs After reading the group email (link given here) and the attached and linked write-ups, you are supposed to reflect on the views and make your own hypothesis or observation or reflective write-up. -  Click here








(1)What is Archetypal Criticism? What does the archetypal critic do?
Ans).Archetypal criticism is a type of critical theory that interprets the importance of text in literary terms with a greater focus on recurring myths and legends and myths in the narrative, TV serials, movies, symbols, images, and character types. An archetype is the word of narrative design, word, symbol, character, dream, mass image, legend, ritual, and universal object. An 'archetype of criticism' means a repetitive narrative design, and it can create images and patterns of another character and theme type in the literature. The archetypal critic seeks to find these patterns, symbols, and legends in current literary work. Criticism of archeology argues that archeology determines the form and function of literary works, which shape the meaning of a text through cultural and psychological myths. Archetypes are strangely basic forms that are embodied or integrated into recurring images, symbols, or patterns. Criticism of archeology comes from psychologist Carl Jung, who believed that mankind has a "collective unconscious," a kind of universal psyche that dreams and dreams. Unfolds and preserves the themes and images that we all inherit. Literature, therefore, imitates the world, but instead "the whole dream of mankind." Jung calls the mythology "a textbook of archeology" archetypal images and story patterns, encouraging readers and viewers of movies and films to participate in rituals with original beliefs, fears, and discomfort of their age. These archaeological features not only constitute the comprehension of the text but also fall into the level of human desires and concerns.

2).What is Frye trying prove by giving an analogy of ' Physics to Nature' and 'Criticism to Literature'?
Ans). Northrop Frye has given a very unique idea of Archetypal Criticism by comparing human emotions or human characteristics with the cycle of seasons. Frye's attempt to prove physics to nature and criticism to literature by giving an analogy. Basically here Frye tried to compare both as according to any physics students they mainly studies or rather learning physics instead of nature. So it can be easy that physics has structured meaning or ideas to study of nature. While on the other side of comparison. We can say that criticism has same philosophy or rather strategy as it has the particular way of study literature. One can learn criticism of literature but can't learn literature.

3). Share your views of criticism as an organized body of knowledge. Mention the relation of literature with history and philosophy.
Ans). We know that literature is all about a specific phenomenon, or events, or ideas. We can not study the literary genre without the help of the literature.  Archetype criticism is based on philosophy and History of people. As it has been said that literature includes history as well as philosophy to convey its meaning so it displays events and ideas. History and philosophy are two important pillars of literature. History gives events and philosophy gives ideas and writer combines both and creates work of literature. Thus both are important to literature. We are not studying history or philosophy but talking only their help to understand literature. Literature is the central division of the Humanities, flanked on one side by history and on the other side by philosophy. Here we can say that history and philosophy are twin pillars of literature. History represents the what was happen in past. Basically history is about past events and actions.

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


Ans). Inductive method means something lead from specific to general. Here we take example of physics to better understanding of this method that when Physics' teacher teach students first different parts of body like Kidney, heart, eyes, brain, etc. Then teach whole body parts that's called inductive method.As we read some specific literary work and comes to a general conclusion,in this way we extend from specific outcome to general outcome.The best example of this method is grave digging scene from Hamlet, it is a specific scene and from that scene we come to some general conclusion. In that scene there were two grave diggers and they seemed in  quite in harmony with their work.They were talking with one another and singing a song during the time of grave digging.They were also mocking on dead Ophelia and commented that whether she allowed to buried or not. Here we can see that they have no grief for deadly one.It was their work and that's why they were habituated with it. It became their general work so they have  no emotion for dead one.



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


Ans).As we know, the Deductive method means from general to particular. The music, painting, rhythm, and pattern there are all arts may be conceived both temporally and spatially. Music is rhythm and painting is pattern. In a music we can understand the rhythm of it while in painting we can understand the pattern of it. Rhythm is a narrative form, while pattern is simultaneous mental grasp of verbal structure and it has meaning and significance. The criticism of painting that is why we are apt to think of the narrative as a sequential representation of vents in an outside “life” and of meaning as a reflection of some external “idea”. In literature both rhythm and pattern are recurrence rhythm means the narrative which presents all the events and episodes as a sequence and action. Pattern in literature signifies it's verbal structure and conveys a meaning.


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. 


ડાંગરના ખેતરમાં તડકો 
ડાંગરના ખેતરમાં તડકો
રોજ સવારે ઝૂલે ડાંગર થઈને
રોજ સવારે તડકો ઝૂલે શેઢા ઉપર
પીળાં પીળાં રાઈ તણાં ફૂલ થઈને

દૂર ક્યારડો વાલોળે લીલો
ભમ્મર થઈને ચક્કર ચક્કર ઘૂમતો
ને પાસ થોરની ટોચ ટૂકડો આભ બનીને
ચટાક રાતો રંગ લહેરમાં ચૂમતો
બહાર ઊભેલો આંબો એનાં 
પાન પાન આ ઊડી જાય રે પંખીટહૂકા થઈને

ડાંગરના ખેતરમાં તડકો
રોજ સવારે ઝૂલે ડાંગર થઈને

નીક મહીં ખળખળતા જળમાં
આભ પડી અમળાય
સૂરજનાં અસ્ત વ્યસ્ત ટુકડા તરતા રેલાય
કાંટાળા બાવળમાંથી સૂરજનાં કિરણો
જીર્ણશીર્ણ થઈ તિરાડ તૂટી ભોંય ઉપર ઠેલાય
રંગરંગનાં પડ્યાં ગાબડાં સીમ મહીં
ને સીમ તણા શેઢાઓ તો આ 
ખીલે રે ફૂલે રે ઝૂલ સવાર થઈને

ડાંગરના ખેતરમાં તડકો
રોજ સવારે ઝૂલે ડાંગર થઈને
-મણિલાલ દેસાઈ







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