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Name :Gediya Disha Vijaybhai Class :sem 2 Paper no:7 Subject: The term archetypal criticism denote narrative design,  patterns of action, character types ,themes and images which are identifiable in work of literature. Roll no:9 Email :dishagediya11@gmail.com Submitted to: Department of English Maharaja krishna kumar sinhji Bhavnagar University Words:2,296 to evaluate my assignment click here What is Archetypal Criticism? What are the sources of its origin? In literary criticism the term archetype denotes recurrent narratives designs, patterns of action, character-types, themes, and images which are identifiable in a wide variety of works of literature, as well as in myths, dreams, and even social rituals. Such recurrent items are held to be the result of elemental and universal forms or patterns in the human psyche, whose effective embodiment in a literary work evokes a profound response from the attentive reader, because he or she shares the psychic archetypes...

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 fr...