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Thinking activity on Northrop Frye : The Archetypes Of Literature

1.  What is Archetypal Criticism ? What does the Archetypal  Critic do? Ans.    Archetypal means "Original form". It refers to universal symbols,  theme , character, images. It repeated throughout literature. It is a term in which Frye 's archetypal criticism strictly categorise works based on their genres which determine how on archetype is to be interpreted in a text.                         Archetypal Critic would suggest that all human experience is connected through    literature and this experience is expressed again and again by using the same pattern thro ughout time and space. 2.   What is Frye trying to prove by giving an analogy of ' Physics to Nature ' and ' Criticism to Literature  Ans.      In this Frye compare the both Physics to Nature and Criticism to Literature. The Physics is deep study of Nature but it called physics not Nature  though it is based on the Nature only but it called physics.In the same manner In the lit