As one of Shakespeare’s most representative works,King Lear has been paid much attention to and studied by scholars at home and abroad from different perspectives since its publication.As for me,I’d like to study on...As one of Shakespeare’s most representative works,King Lear has been paid much attention to and studied by scholars at home and abroad from different perspectives since its publication.As for me,I’d like to study on the imagery of Heath in King Lear from the perspective of Archetypal Criticism to explore and make an analysis of the four multinational-layered and profound symbolic significance.It will be of great benefit to promote our study and understanding of this drama from this specific perspective,thus bringing us much enlightenment and benefits.展开更多
A.S.Byatt's Possession has its own appraisal of public and critic alike for its original structure, as well as for the novelty and complexity of its themes. With Northrop Frye's archetypal criticism, this pape...A.S.Byatt's Possession has its own appraisal of public and critic alike for its original structure, as well as for the novelty and complexity of its themes. With Northrop Frye's archetypal criticism, this paper analyzes the epic poems"The Garden of Proserpina"so as to identify the hidden creation theme from paradise archetype.展开更多
The Tempest, written by William Shakespeare, is highly influenced by The Holy Bible, the western culture and literature source. This paper utilizes Northrop Frye’s mythic archetypal criticism theory to study the play...The Tempest, written by William Shakespeare, is highly influenced by The Holy Bible, the western culture and literature source. This paper utilizes Northrop Frye’s mythic archetypal criticism theory to study the play’s embodiment of the biblical archetypal model. Previous studies have only dealt with one aspect of the biblical archetype in The Tempest. This essay discusses that the characters, structure, plot, and imagery of The Tempest can all find the archetypes in The Holy Bible. It is found that the play is the Scriptures’ double to some extent, through which Shakespeare wants to spread biblical values such as morality and fraternity.展开更多
Tender Is the Night is Fitzgerald’s last long novel which tells a tragic story of a promising psychiatrist’s decadence and failure.In accordance with Northrop Frye’s Myth and Archetypal criticism,several archetypes...Tender Is the Night is Fitzgerald’s last long novel which tells a tragic story of a promising psychiatrist’s decadence and failure.In accordance with Northrop Frye’s Myth and Archetypal criticism,several archetypes are applied,mainly concentrated on image,characters and plot.In image,Apollo’s sky is archetypal image of Dick’s Gausses Beach,where Dick could present his self.On contrary,Villa Diana which belonged to Nicole reflected Moon-Goddess Artemis’s forest in Greek myth.In character,Dick’s redemption and self-exile are archetypal dealing with Jesus Christ’s redemption in Bible and Oedipus’exile in Greek myth respectively.In plot,Bible’s serpent’s seduction to tempt Eva to eat forbidden fruits is the myth and archetype of Dick’s marriage and extramarital love and Nicole’s extramarital affair.Through archetypal analyses,the tragic destiny of Americans in their pursuit of dreams can be seen.展开更多
文摘As one of Shakespeare’s most representative works,King Lear has been paid much attention to and studied by scholars at home and abroad from different perspectives since its publication.As for me,I’d like to study on the imagery of Heath in King Lear from the perspective of Archetypal Criticism to explore and make an analysis of the four multinational-layered and profound symbolic significance.It will be of great benefit to promote our study and understanding of this drama from this specific perspective,thus bringing us much enlightenment and benefits.
文摘A.S.Byatt's Possession has its own appraisal of public and critic alike for its original structure, as well as for the novelty and complexity of its themes. With Northrop Frye's archetypal criticism, this paper analyzes the epic poems"The Garden of Proserpina"so as to identify the hidden creation theme from paradise archetype.
文摘The Tempest, written by William Shakespeare, is highly influenced by The Holy Bible, the western culture and literature source. This paper utilizes Northrop Frye’s mythic archetypal criticism theory to study the play’s embodiment of the biblical archetypal model. Previous studies have only dealt with one aspect of the biblical archetype in The Tempest. This essay discusses that the characters, structure, plot, and imagery of The Tempest can all find the archetypes in The Holy Bible. It is found that the play is the Scriptures’ double to some extent, through which Shakespeare wants to spread biblical values such as morality and fraternity.
文摘Tender Is the Night is Fitzgerald’s last long novel which tells a tragic story of a promising psychiatrist’s decadence and failure.In accordance with Northrop Frye’s Myth and Archetypal criticism,several archetypes are applied,mainly concentrated on image,characters and plot.In image,Apollo’s sky is archetypal image of Dick’s Gausses Beach,where Dick could present his self.On contrary,Villa Diana which belonged to Nicole reflected Moon-Goddess Artemis’s forest in Greek myth.In character,Dick’s redemption and self-exile are archetypal dealing with Jesus Christ’s redemption in Bible and Oedipus’exile in Greek myth respectively.In plot,Bible’s serpent’s seduction to tempt Eva to eat forbidden fruits is the myth and archetype of Dick’s marriage and extramarital love and Nicole’s extramarital affair.Through archetypal analyses,the tragic destiny of Americans in their pursuit of dreams can be seen.
