Structuralism
(Our report)
Lunes, Nobyembre 16, 2015
'Design' by Robert Frost (1922)
'I found a dimpled spider, fat and white,
On a white heal-all, holding up a moth
Like a white piece of rigid satin cloth--
Assorted characters of death and blight
Mixed ready to begin the morning right,
Like the ingredients of a witches' broth-
A snow-drop spider, a flower like a froth,
And dead wings carried like a paper kite.'
'What had that flower to do with being white,
The wayside blue and innocent heal-all?
What brought the kindred spider to that height,
Then steered the white moth thither in the night?
What but design of darkness to appall?-
If design govern in a thing so small.'
The text shows about an event happening among the spider, the web, and the medicinal flower.When you read the text the first time, you would hardly understand what it means, then you realize that the text itself uses symbols to conceal it's meaning. The 3 things found in the poem namely the flower, the moth, and the hungry spider show a certain realistic life event.
Though the flower holds the moth, it does not mean that it's color blends with where it stands. The theme of the poem just says that life cannot escape problems. Life is as dangerous as a hungry spider hunting an innocent moth. You hide from life's problems. Still, it sees you.Though the poem implies that problems are unescapable, it also shows that as problems exist, so does hope.
Naruto Shipuuden-----Theory of the Fantastic
The story deals with the life of the main character, Uzumaki Naruto, who was avoided by everyone as a child, believed to be a beast by everyone in his little town of Konoha, the Hidden Leaf Village. The story shows how his life was changed from a person who was feared by everybody, to a hero being looked up to. The story shows how his life turned to be the complete opposite of his past, as he walks his journey with the people influenced by his courage and bravery.
In connection with the theory of the fantastic, the story deals with fantasy, first of all, because it is animated.On the other hand, it also contains some realistic attributes which makes both a marvelous, and an uncanny.
It is an uncanny in a way that it involves hard to believe features including reanimation and the five natural elements. These elements are highly inexplicable, but is believed to truly existed. On the other hand, it is a marvelous in a way that it also involves features which can no longer be attributed to the real world, such as tailed beasts and jutsus.
The journey of the main character and all the other characters have lessons that can be applied in real life situations. Each character has his own inspiring story, and each episode is really worth watching. :)
Biag ni Lam-ang (Archetypal Approach)
The story deals with the extra ordinary adventures of a Philippine hero, Lam-ang. An adventure which was orally passed through generations. It's story containing different weird adventures and exaggerations are wildly known by almost all Filipinos.
Myth is ubiquitous in time as well as place: it is a dynamic factor everywhere in human society; it transcends time, uniting the past (traditional modes of belief) with the present (current values) and reaching toward the future (spiritual and cultural aspirations).
Archetypal approach in connection to the story itself, Biag ni Lam-ang has become one of the all-time favorite stories of the Filipinos. The story contains almost all of the images of a myth:
Water: the mystery of creation; birth-death-resurrection; purification and redemption; fertility and growth. According to Carl Jung, water is also the commonest symbol for the unconscious.
a. The Sea: the Mother of all Life; spiritual mystery, and infinity; death and rebirth; timelessness and eternity; the unconscious.
b. Rivers: also death and rebirth (baptism); the flowing of time into eternity; transitional phases of the life cycle; incarnations of deities.
This scene was evident when Lam-ang was bathed by a hundred maidens. The death of the fishes and other sea creatures living in the river shows his rebirth, and purification, killing and removing all the harmful elements that hinder him.
The Archetypal Woman (including the Jungian anima):
a. The Great Mother, Good Mother, Earth Mother: as sociated with birth, warmth, protection, fertility, growth, abundance; the unconscious.
b. The Terrible Mother: the witch, sorceress, siren—associated with fear, danger, and death.
c. The Soul-Mate: the princess or “beautiful lady”—in carnation of inspiration and spiritual fulfillment.
It was depicted by Ines Kannoyan, the beautiful maiden who was chosen by lam-ang to be his wife.
The story also contains all of the archetypal patterns starting from how he was born, his impossible growth,, his marriage, his death, and his rebirth.
Creation: this is perhaps the most fundamental of all archetypal motifs; virtually every mythology is built on some account of how the Cosmos, Nature, and Man were brought into existence by some supernatural Being or Beings.
2. Immortality: another fundamental archetype, generally taking one of two basic narrative forms:
a. Escape from Time: the “Return to Paradise,” the state of perfect, timeless bliss enjoyed by man before his tragic Fall into corruption and mortality.
b. Mystical Submersion into Cyclical Time: the theme of endless death and regeneration—man achieves a kind of immortality by submitting to the vast, mysterious rhythm of Nature’s eternal cycle, particularly the cycle of the seasons.
3. Hero Archetypes (archetypes of transformation and redemption)
a) The Quest: the Hero (Savior or Deliverer) undertakes some long journey during which he must perform impossible ( tasks, battle with monsters, solve unanswerable riddles, and overcome insurmountable obstacles in order to save the \ kingdom and perhaps marry the princess.
(b. Initiation: the Hero undergoes a series of excruciating ordeals in passing from ignorance and immaturity to social and spiritual adulthood, that is, in achieving maturity and becoming a full-fledged member of his social group. The initiation most commonly consists of three stages or phases:
(1) separation, (2) transformation, and (3) return. Like the Quest, this is a variation of the Death-and-Rebirth archetype.
c. The Sacrificial Scapegoat: the Hero, with whom the welfare of the tribe or nation is identified, must die in order to atone for the people’s sins and restore the land to fruitfulness.
Finally, in addition to appearing as images and motifs, archetypes may be found in even more complex combinations as genres or types of literature which conform with the major phases of the seasonal cycle. In Fables of Identity (Harcourt, 1963), Northrop Frye provides the following table of archetypal phases with their correspondent literary types. (The reader may wish to consult Frye’s Anatomy of Criticism for an extended explanation of these categories.)
1. The dawn, spring and birth phase. Myths of the birth of the hero, of revival and resurrection, of creation and (be cause the four phases are a cycle) of the defeat of the powers of darkness, winter and death. Subordinate characters: the father and the mother. The archetype of romance and of most dithyrambic and rhapsodic poetry.
2. The zenith, summer, and marriage or triumph phase. Myths of apotheosis, of the sacred marriage, and of entering into Paradise. Subordinate characters: the companion and the bride. The archetype of com and idyll.
3. The sunset, autumn and death phase. Myths of fall, of the dying god, of violent death and sacrifice and of the isolation of the hero. Subordinate characters: the traitor and the siren. The archetype of tragedy and elegy.
4. The darkness, winter and dissolution phase. Myths of the triumph of these powers; myths of floods and the return of chaos, of the defeat of the hero. . . . Subordinate characters: the ogre and the witch. The archetype of satire. .
Marxist Theory- "Pangako Sa'yo"
The story evolves around the love story of Angelo Buenavista, who is believed to be the son of Gov. Eduardo Buenavista and his wife Claudia, and Yna Macaspac, who was at the end discovered to be the daughter of Amor Powers, Eduardo Buenavista's former love interest. The story does not only tackle about love, but also about the importance of family, greed, politics, conflict, and money.
Marxism is a method of socioeconomic analysis, originating from the mid-to-late 19th century works of German philosophers Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, that analyzes class relations and societal conflict using a materialist interpretation of historical development and a dialectical view of social transformation.
Linggo, Nobyembre 15, 2015
The virgin by Kerima Polotan Tuvera is a good story stating the experience of Miss Mijares, a 34 year old virgin lady who spent most of her life taking care of her family. Miss Mijares was an independent woman, focusing only on her job and family, with her world evolving around her independence. She spent most of her time at work, receiving and hiring contractual employees to get jobs for the company where she was working. Her world was completely normal for her, until a man came, the man that changed her principles in life.
The title itself suits the character of Miss Mijares. At 34, she was still unmarried and childless, completely single. The story was just a little bit unpredictable, since its ending was not clearly stated. The readers will still have to predict her next move the moment after the guy confessed to her.
Lunes, Hulyo 27, 2015
The Lady and Her Five Suitors by Arabian Knights
(Reflection)
(Mimetic Approach)
The story of the lady and her five suitors was all about a lady who's husband went to a business trip and never returned. The lady then decide to fall inlove again. Unfortunately, his lover was sent to jail. In order for her lover to be set free, she went to four of the most powerful men on the land- the Kazi, Wali, Wazir, and King. As she approached each men to make a release note for her husband, all of them demanded to be with her for a day in exchange of the release note. This made her think of an effective strategy to get rid of her suitors. She asked a carpenter to make a cabinet with five compartments. The cabinet was then delivered the next day. As each visitor arrived, he was given food and clothes. When someone knocks on the door, the lady suddenly panics and hides her suitor inside each compartment of the closet. The suitor then follows her with the fear that it would be her husband who is knocking.
Suddenly, the carpenter arrived and had a dispute over the lady regarding the size of the cabinet. She then pushed her into the fifth compartment and locked the door. She went to the jail to give the release note made by the king for her. She then went away with her lover leaving her suitors trapped inside the cabinet. The suitors were released by the neighbors after urinating on each other. They told the neighbors about who they were because of the clothes they were wearing.
Mimetic Analysis
The scenes in the story, though they were fictional, is somehow identical to what is happening in reality. The scenes manifest prostitution, in a way that the lady agrees to spend a day with with each suitor even though nothing romantic happened. This happens in reality. The scenes also show dominance of power, which was manifested by each suitor, offering the lady her husband's freedom in exchange of spending a day with her. This also happens in reality. The story also manifests cleverness, in a way how the lady thought of an effective strategy of getting rid of her suitors without being touched or abused. This also happens in reality. People think of clever ideas in order to get out of the deal.
Over all, the story creates a portal between fiction and reality. Though the scene of the story seems a little bit weird and impossible to happen, it happens in real life.
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