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Symbolism in Northop Frye
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Topic: Symbolism in Archetypal criticism of Northrop FryePaper Name: Literary theory and criticismPaper No.: 7Name: Bhatt UrviRoll No: 32Std: M.A.Sem: 2Submitted to: Department of English Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University
Introduction
• Herman Northrop Frye (1912-1991) was Canadian literary critic.
• Literary Theorist• Most influence of
the 20th century
What is Archetypal criticism?
• “Archetypal criticism looks in literature for patterns and traces them through works of classical antiquity into modern texts, and interprets those reverberations as symbols or manifestations of universal human conflicts and desires.”
• Archetypal symbols • Narratives or characters types
Human
Comic Human
•Wish fulfillment •Being community centered
Tragic Human
•Isolation•The Fallen Hero
Animal
Comic genre
Tragic genre
Docile and pastoral
Predictors and
hunters
vegetation
• The comedic is pastoral but also represented by garden, park, rose and lotuses.
• The tragic is of a wild forest
Mineral
• Cities, Temples are represents comic mineral
• Tragic mineral realm is noted for being a desert
Water
• Symbol of life• Cleansing and rebirth
comic River
Tragic Flood
The Hero
• The courageous figure, the one who’s always running in and saving the day .
The Outcast
• He or she has been cast out of society or has left it on a voluntary basis.
• Figure can oftentimes also be considered as a Christ figure.
Sun
• Rising Sun: Birth and Creation• Setting sun: Death
Numbers
The Holy Trinity
stage of life: childhood, teenage, middle age and old age
The completion of a cycle, perfect order, perfect number, religious symbol.
Seasons
Seasons
Spring,
Rebirth,
comedy
Summer,
Life,Romance
Winter,
Death,
Irony
Other symbols
• The Task• The Quest• The Loss of Innocence• Colors• Serpent • Wise old man• Garden • Tree• Desert• Creation• The great fish