Hello Readers!
This is my academic task Sunday reading Northrop Frye and Religion.
- Literary Criticism and Religion
There is a close relationship between literary criticism and religion. In his analysis, a literary critic considers God as an archetype man who is portrayed as a hero in a work. God is a character in the story of Paradise Lost or The Bible, and the critic deals with him and considers him only as a human character. Criticism does not deal with any actuality, but with what is conceivable and possible.
Similarly religion is not associated with scientific actuality, but with how things look like. Literary criticism work on cinceivability. Likewise, religion function on conceivability. There can be no place for scientific actuality in both, but what, is conceived is accepted by all. Both in religion and literary criticism , an epiphany is at work. It is a revelation of god or truth and it is a profound insight. It originated from the subconscious, from the dreams. In human life there is a cycle of waking and dreaming and in nature also, it could be seen and it is the cycle of light and darkness. Waking and dreaming, and light and darkness are two antithetic factors, which bring about epiphany in a person. It is during the day that man develops fear and frustration, and he resolves to achieve. It is the antithesis, which resolves the problems and misunderstanding of man and makes him perceive truth both in religion and literary criticism.
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