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Thinking activity: Structuralism and Literary Criticism ➧  Being a structuralist critic, how would you analyse literary text or TV serial or Film? You can select any image or TV serial or film or literary text or advertisement. Apply structuralist method and post your write up on your blog. Give link of that blog-post in the comment section under this blog. In literary theory , structuralism is an approach to analyzing the narrative material by examining the underlying invariant structure. For example:-  A literary critics should apply one type of pattern or structure in their writings. They don't applying something new or we can say something unique in their writings.  Like  Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. In both texts a girl and a boy fall in love (a "formula" with a symbolic operator between them would be "Boy + Girl") despite the fact that they belong to two groups that hate each other ("Boy's Group - Girl's Group&q

Thinking activity: Archetypal Criticism What is Archetypal Criticism? What does the archetypal critic do?  According to dictionary: An  archetype  is a typical character, an action or a situation that seems to represent such universal patterns of human nature. An  archetype , also known as universal symbol, may be a character, a theme, a symbol or even a setting. It identifying the situation, patterns of action,character types. In archetype some type of basic structure followed by writers, with different religions, different cultures. Archetypes goes beyond to new criticism, it denotes recurrent native design.  Carl.G.Jung also applied Archetypes as primordial images,the psychic residue of repeated patterns of experience in our very ancient ancestors which he maintained. What is Frye trying prove by giving an analogy of ' Physics to Nature' and 'Criticism to Literature'? Northrop Frye trying prove by giving an analogy of ‘physics to natur

Write an essay on plot in Sense and Sensibility. Introduction ' Sense and Sensibility' written by Jane Austen. It is a type of romance and satire. The novel is set in southwest England, London and Sussex. At the beginning of the novel we see the death of Mr. Henry Dashwood. Through his second wife he has three daughters Elinor, Marianne and Margaret. Initial situation As per their English law, women could not inherit property, and so Mr. Henry Dashwood's son from his first marriage, and the will goes to him. John  is fairly good-natured, but easily manipulated by his greedy wife Fanny. John Dashwood provide them enough money to servive, but his selfish wife doesn't like it and she changes the John's mind.  Elinor and love Elinor was about to 19 and she described as strength of her family. She represents the sense.  Edward Ferrars, Fanny's brother, comes to stay and is attracted to Elinor but,  Fanny  disapproves of the relationship betwee