Thinking activity on : Structuralism by Gérard Genette

           Structuralism : Gerard Genette 


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● 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.

Ans : 

Structuralism : 

    It is a approach to analysing the narrative Material by examining the underlying invariant structure. This is in fact exactly what structuralism is about structuralist theorist are interested in identifying and analysing the structure that underlie all the cultural phenomenon. 

     Structuralist got the notion that everything could be analysed in the terms of deep structure from linguistic Ferdinand Saussure,  Gerard Genette. They found the basic structure in every work. It is like human structure of body that all human being have same inside structure of body. So this can also apply into the literature that it has also their basic common structure which can found every literary forms.

1) Languge , Langue , Parole 

2) Sign , Signifier , Signified 

3) Dachronic vs Synchronic 

● As a structuralist I found here the similar structure in the movies : 

1) suspense 

2) Thriller 

1)  Drishyam : 

            This is one of the best suspense movie in Bollywood. It is directed by Nishikant kamat and Produced by Abhishek Pathak. It is the fascinating story that every moment you are forced to think that what will happen next. It is full of suspense and thrillar movie. It is the one of the best movie which I have ever seen. It has no any mistake in direction.  
         In this movie AJay Devgan is  illiterate person who only 4th pass but this thing can't decide that he is not intelligent person which Tabu ( police officer ) believe that he is illiterate and not much intelligent but later on she realise that he is more intelligent person beyond her thinking. So intelligence is not bases on which degree you have or how much you studied it can't decide your intelligency. So Ajay Devgan  is more Family center rather than believe in law and crime. He protect his family into this situation and he become successful. 

2) Special 26 : 

       It is also Bollywood thriller movie directed by Neeraj Pandey and produced by Kumar Margat and Shital Bhatia. It is must watch movie for everyone with decent comedy and an ultimate twist at the end. It is engages the audience till the end.it is a mixture of suspense and thriller. This movie based on 1987 Opera house heist where a group of posing as CBI officer executed an income tax raid on the jewellery shop in Mumbai .

● Fake Is Real And Real Is Fake : 

    So in this movie " Special Fake 26 " things or person seems as Real and Real things or person seems as Fake. The Fake CBI officers behaving as Real officers and they have more confidant then Real officer. On other hand Real officer has introduced himself that they are Real CBI officer. We can see this thing when he says " Hum CBI se hai asli Vale ".  So they have to clarifying themselves by saying that they are Real. In other hand the Fake CBI officers never clarify that they are Real in opposite that they slept the other officer or businessmen .

    In the interview of celecting people for income tax raid by Fake CBI officers people who giving interview they believed that they are Real CBI officers and in front of them they told about patrioticism and removing corruption  from India. But they never know that these people are Fake CBI officers.

● Police / CBI  :    So in both movies police is as a sign who Signified as protector. But in both movie it seems to failed. In Drashyam movie police is failed to searching to the criminal or failed to prove the crime which is done by criminal. In the second movie special 26 police/ CBI officer is again failed to protect the jewellery shop from the thief 's gang and not caught them.  

● Significance of ' FIRE ' and ' ICE ' in the both poems : 1) Fire and Ice by Robert Frost and 2) Ice and Fire by Edmund Spenser.

 Ans : 

 1) Fire and Ice by Robert Frost : 

2) Ice and Fire by Edmund Spenser : 

      

 So in this both of poem their are common thing told which is Fire and Ice and we can see this thing as many ways like fire is a symbol of passion and Ice is a symbol of careless. Also Fire and Ice is symbol of the seasons of summer and winter. Also one is a symbol of anger and another is symbol of  calmness. 
      There is another thing is both are dangerous. Both have strength burn the thing and make anything lifeless. So they can't go together as this thing shows in this poems that in presence of fire ice can't dissolves and in the presence of ice make fire more heatable.

Thinking Activity on Northrop Frye : The Archetypes of Literature

Thinking Activity on Archetypes of Literature by Northrop Frye : 

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 throughout time and space. There are some universal truths that we can learn by reading .

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 literature we are not learn the literature but we learn to understand literature,  how to read and how to criticise literature so we are not Learn literature but criticise literature. So it is the criticism of literature. So Literature is equall to Nature and Physics is equall to Criticism.

3) Share your views of criticism as an organised body of knowledge. Mention relation of literature with history and philosophy.

Ans :
   Criticism is as an organised body of knowledge. So it is progressive way of Literature. But Literature never organised it should free from it for the progress of Literature. It definitely deeply connected with the History and Philosophy both are important pillars  of Literature. The History connected with the myths and Philosophy connected with Morality and ethics. History stands for events and Philosophy is stands for idea.

4) Briefly explain Indicative method with illustrations of Shakespeare 's Hamlet 's Grave Digger 's scene.

Ans:
   Inductive method is method of reasoning which works from specific to general. In the Shakespeare 's Hamlet the grave digger scene is the example of it. It is specific scene which lead us toward general things.
   In this shows about blind faith in the religion Some buried rules of Christianity. In this Ophelia 's death is centre whether her death is nature and accident or suicide. According Christian religion suicide victims not normally buried in churchyard in those days.
  The second thing is the about the gravediggers that they are not effected   by the death of others because it is their rutin work. They have  romanticize relationship with their jobs. It is manifestations of the absolute integrity of gravediggers. So In this we come to general observations: corruption in society, their own worth and equality of all human kind , concept of death : Humanbeing is Mortal , blind faith about death and Hamlet ready Die for his love and ready for fighting with Laertes. So with the Specific scene we come to the general illustrations.

5) Briefly explain Deductive Method with reference to an analogy to music , painting, rhythm and pattern. Give example of outcome of  Deductive Method.

Ans :
   In the Deductive Method it come from general to specific or particular observations. In this Music has rhyme and Painting has patterns. Both are connected while listening the music at the first time we can't understand but when we start to understand the words we image a picture in the mind by this imagination we understand the things. As the same thing happens while reading literature we image the things through the imagination it helps us to understand the literature. So music , rhythm, painting, pattern so it helps to understand the literature.

6) Refer to the Indian seasonal grid ( below) If you can, please  read small Gujrati or Hindi poem from Archetypal approach and apply India seasonal grid in the interpretation.

Ans : 
     Here is one poem which about Nature : spring poem : 
Hindi Poems on Nature – मौसम बसंत का

लो आ गया फिर से हँसी मौसम बसंत का
शुरुआत है बस ये निष्ठुर जाड़े के अंत का
गर्मी तो अभी दूर है वर्षा ना आएगी
फूलों की महक हर दिशा में फ़ैल जाएगी
पेड़ों में नई पत्तियाँ इठला के फूटेंगी
प्रेम की खातिर सभी सीमाएं टूटेंगी
सरसों के पीले खेत ऐसे लहलहाएंगे
सुख के पल जैसे अब कहीं ना जाएंगे
आकाश में उड़ती हुई पतंग ये कहे
डोरी से मेरा मेल है आदि अनंत का
लो आ गया फिर से हँसी मौसम बसंत का
शुरुआत है बस ये निष्ठुर जाड़े के अंत का
ज्ञान की देवी को भी मौसम है ये पसंद
वातवरण में गूंजते है उनकी स्तुति के छंद
स्वर गूंजता है जब मधुर वीणा की तान का
भाग्य ही खुल जाता है हर इक इंसान का
माता के श्वेत वस्त्र यही तो कामना करें
विश्व में इस ऋतु के जैसी सुख शांति रहे
जिसपे भी हो जाए माँ सरस्वती की कृपा
चेहरे पे ओज आ जाता है जैसे एक संत का
लो आ गया फिर से हँसी मौसम बसंत का
शुरुआत है बस ये निष्ठुर जाड़े के अंत का 
   
   So in this poem talks about the spring season. What the changes comes of spring also talks about the flowers and tress , kite festival and also many things which comes when spring comes and people feels new life and feeling happy when spring comes. It also talks about that what  changes comes at this season.