paper 7 northrop frye's inductive and deductive method
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Name: Brijal OzaRoll no.: 23M.A. SEM: 2Year: 2015 – 2017
Paper: 7, Literary Theory and CriticismEmail ID: [email protected] to: Department of English
M.K. Bhavnagar University
Presentation TopicNorthrop Fry’s
Inductive
Method
Deductive
Method
Northrop Frye Canadian educator and
literary critic. Wrote on Canadian literature
– published in 1951. The term “Archetypal” means
original idea or pattern of something of which others are copies.
Archetypal approach is the interpretation of a text in the light of cultural patterns involved in it, and these cultural patterns are based on myth and rituals of nation.
Inductive MethodReach to a conclusion based on observation.
From particular to general – means, readers learns the general truth of life that is called inductive method.
Proceeds inductively from particular truths.
In simple words – first introduced the examples and then the rules.
Example of Inductive Method This Cat is black. That Cat is black. A third Cat
is black. Therefore all cats are black.
This marble from the bag is blue. That marble from the bag is blue. A third marble from the bag is blue. Therefore all marbles are blue.
Example of Inductive method
Conclude that “Oliver Twist” as a dark novel.
“Oliver Twist” as
a dark novel
class conflic
t
Religious
conflict
Victimization of women
Macabre of child labor
Deductive Method The conclusion is already given and we have to give
example supporting that conclusion.
From general to particular – means, analysis, proceeds to established the meaning of work from the general truth to particular truth.
In simple words – first introduced with the general rules and then examples.
Example of Deductive MethodBachelors are unmarried men. Varun is
unmarried. Therefore Varun is a bachelor.
All men are mortal. Kim is a man. Therefore, Kim is a mortal.
Example of Deductive Method
Conclude that Fagin was a villain of the novel “Oliver Twist”.
Fagin as a
villain
Pick pocket
Ugly look & dark
character
Brutal, cruel
character
Temptation of
money
Conclusion
Literature can be interpreted in as many ways as possible.
These methods are useful for critics and it can derive reader in new direction and vision of any literary work.
If we want to interpret in different way through this methods, center and periphery can be changed.
