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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 a d post your write on Your blog . In literary theory , structuralism is an approach to analyzing the narrative material by examining the underlying invariant structure.  For example, a literary critic applying a structuralist literary theory as Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. In both texts a girl and a boy fall in love (a "formula" with a symbolic operator between them would be "Boy + Girl") despite the fact that they belong to two groups that hate each other ("Boy's Group - Girl's Group" or "Opposing forces") and conflict is resolved by their death. The versatility of structuralism is such that a literary critic could make the same claim about a story of two  friendly  families ("Boy's Family + Girl

1) what is archetypal criticism? What does the archetypal critic do? Archetypal criticism which one is a type of critics theory they interprets a text by focusing on myths and symbols, images and characters types . It narrates theme , design and pattern of action. Archetypal criticism shows primordial images the psychic residue. It shows repeated pattern of experience in our ancient ancestors which he maintained. The archetypal critic emphasize the occurrences of mythical patterns in literature. These myths are closest to the elemental archetype than the artful manipulation. 2) What is Frye trying prove by giving an analogy  of physics to nature and criticism of literature.. An analogy of physics in nature and criticism of literature Frye trying to prove that physics is an organized body of knowledge about nature and a student of it says that he is learning physics not that he is learning nature. In criticism a subject of systematic study and has to be distinguished from t