Chapter One. "The Motive for Metaphor." Frye begins by exploring the relation of language and literature. "What is the relation of English as the mother tongue to English as a literature?" he asks (p. 16)‚ and before he can give an answer‚ he has to explain why people use words. He identifies three different uses of language‚ which he also terms types or levels of language. 1. "The language of consciousness or awareness" is our means of "self-expression‚" our means of responding to the natural
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Mar. 1st‚ 2013 The Singing School 1. According to Frye‚ these stories stop being ways to explain the world and become part of literature when they cease to be beliefs. They’re really metaphors and part of the language of poetry. 2. Frye means by “every form of literature has a pedigree” and “literature can only derive it’s form from itself.” that every literary work comes from a related source or idea in literature. A writer’s interest to write can only have come from a previous experience
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The Suffering of Frankenstein Frankenstein makes clear of Frankenstein’s innocence before everything becomes tragic. The reader is shown his largely happy and privileged childhood‚ his blameless obsession with knowledge‚ and how he arrived at studying what would soon become his downfall. When Frankenstein creates the monster the immediate effect is his disappointment and exhaustion. He is sickened by his own work and regrets the creation from the moment he saw it in the way everyone else will see
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1. According to Frye‚ these stories stop being ways to explain the world and become part of literature as soon as they cease to be beliefs‚ or even sooner. Frye states that they are all products of an impulse to identify human and natural worlds and they are really metaphors‚ part of the language of poetry. 2. Every form of literature has a pedigree and derives its form from itself means that literature comes from past experience and inspires another. For example‚ myths come together to form a mythology
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spiral. The purpose of structuring a narrative in the symbolic framework of a descent is to emphasize its theme‚ which is very direct: “The general theme of descent‚ we say‚ was that of a growing confusion of identity and of restrictions to action” (Frye as per Hurley’s handout). This loss of identity during the descent thrusts the protagonist onto the archetypal quest for truth‚ and this theme is latently emphasized within the allegorical underworld. In literature‚ those who embrace art and language
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The Educated Imagination- Keys to Dreamland Response Differentiate between the vertical and the horizontal perspectives in literature. In this chapter‚ Frye writes about the two different perspectives in literature- the vertical and the horizontal. There is a vast difference between the two perspectives and literature is commonly only written in the vertical. The two perspectives can be pictured as a compass on a map. From north to south is where the vertical perspective lies and from east
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remorseful about killing Polonius than annoyed with Polonius for not being Claudius‚ and seems genuinely bewildered that Laertes should be hostile to him”(Frye 3). With the tragic loss of her father‚ as well as her recent messiness of her relationship with Hamlet‚ Ophelia becomes insane and committed suicide by drowning herself.
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Today’s society is a very "powerful anti-intellectual society". As Northrop Frye has stated in the article "Don’t you think it’s time to start thinking?" I also agree that today’s society is very anti-intellectual. Teenagers are exposed to video games‚ drugs‚ violence‚ slang‚ and many other things that do not want to think. These things make teenagers choose the wrong path. From the age of ten we are given video games as birthday presents‚ or even by our parents for no apparent reason. I believe
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http://www.rtjournal.org Published by the Religion and Theatre Focus Group of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education The Journal of Religion and Theatre is a peer-reviewed online journal. The journal aims to provide descriptive and analytical articles examining the spirituality of world cultures in all disciplines of the theatre‚ performance studies in sacred rituals of all cultures‚ themes of transcendence in text‚ on stage‚ in theatre history‚ the analysis of dramatic literature‚ and
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The tragic play "Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare‚ is a love story between Romeo‚ the young heir of the Montagues‚ and Juliet‚ the only surviving child of the house of Capulet. This story of the young "star-crossed" lovers is an extraordinary work in which Shakespeare uses a variety of verbal imagery including; contrasts between sex and love with hate‚ conflict‚ and death‚ comparisons between romantic and unromantic views of love‚ the correlative use of light and dark polarity‚ and the correlation
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