Thinking Activity on Northrop Frye: Archetype of Literature

                                                        The Archetype Of Literature

1. What is Archetypal of Criticism? What does the Archetypal Critic do?

Ans. Archetype is a term of narrative design, symbol, character, dream, collective images, myths, ritual and universal thing are in literature. 'Archetype of criticism' means denotes recurrent narrative design and it may that to art into images and pattern of one another character and theme type of in literature. The Archetypal critic tries to find this pattern, symbol and myth in present literary work. 

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

Ans. 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 organised body of knowledge. Mention relation of literature with history and philosophy.

Ans. 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. 

4. Briefly explain inductive method with illustration 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. So Hamlet's Grave digging scene is the best example of inductive method. As it demonstrates thee the philosophy of life and death which revealed by grave diggers. That all Humen beings King, Emperor, Sultan are mortal so every one should die.I 

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

Ans. 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 spatial. But all assets may be conceived both temporally and spatially. Literature seems in between music and painting. The rhythm of literature is narration and pattern is the 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. 

Ans.In this Gujarati poem ' Mehanat ni Mausam' we found that the season of monsoon is archetypal of happiness for love birds, farmers, also the season of monsoon is season of romance according to Indian seasonal grid.