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Structural Criticism

Structuralism

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-Point of view in 3rd person with a narrator telling the story.

-Beginning, climax

-Beginning with "once upon a time"

-Villain harms a family member, or an individual lacks or desires something,

-Hero goes on a quest, or mission due to their desire.

-Hero is intervened by someone and/or a someone who assists them.

-Hero eventually arrives at their mission destination.

-Hero and villain engage in combat.

-Villain is defeated.

-Hero is pursued

-Hero faces yet another difficult task.

-Villain is exposed or punished

-The hero is either crowned and/or married.

-Ending with "Happily ever after."

Structuralism in Cinderella

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Ben, Guiliano, Larssa, Rimi

-Cinderella lived with her step mother, and her sisters.

-Cinderella was constantly kept in rags.

-Occasionally, a royal ball would be thrown, and Cinderella had no hope that she would ever attend.

-Cinderella's fairy God mother appears and transforms her dream of beauty and wealth into reality.

-Cinderella charms prince charming

-Cinderella faces the wrath of her step mother and Step-sisters at midnight, when the spell wears off.

Initial Viewpoint v.s. Structural Perspective

Narrator - I noticed that the the narrator was much more involved and that gave a much greater understanding to scenes and also the novel

Writing style- Helped me understand some of the old terms being used during the story that i didn't quite understand the first time around

Context- Made many parts of the novel much more clear and opened my eyes. Gave me a new perspective on the play

Elements of Structuralism

  • Structure: the parts of the work and how they fit together
  • Point of View: who is telling the story or who's thoughts does the reader have access to
  • Active details: figures of speech, comparisons, motifs, symbols and how they tie in to the big picture
  • Insights/Themes: ideas expressed by characters or the author, new things seen or understood by the author
  • Characters: static, dynamic, rounded, flat, stereotypical or not, characterization

The Crucible & Structuralism

  • Structuralism puts into perspective the structure in which the text is composed
  • Structural Criticism also studies the sequences of events in which they occur from beginning, climax and end
  • Theory also puts into perspective the rearrangement of the narrative to build suspense
  • Often views the shifts in viewpoints or speakers
  • Focuses on the opposites that often appear in literary constructs (i.e. oxymorons, paradox)

What is Structural Criticism?

  • Structuralist criticisms developed in the 1940s in France out of the existentialism movement in Europe.
  • In the late 1960s structuralism dropped in popularity due to a changing view of life.
  • The structuralist school emerges from the theories of language and linguistics
  • Structuralism is analyzing an object of literature as if it was a single body. The pieces of the literary object are the different organs in the body.
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