i feel th same, Ashleigh :) My school teacher has tried to, but this video succeed. I found so much great stuff, but i had to make an essay about Romeo and Juliet. I found this on doksi dot net. It really helped me, a lot more than my prof.
This is so much clearer!! Thank you so much I don't consider myselft an analytical person. So, ofc it's terribly hard for me to try to do literary analysis. I never learned to do it in school, neither I cared to learn it on my own. I love reading for fun, but to me analyzing everything makes it boring. However, I would like to start doing it as it always keeps appearing in my life lol. Once again thank you! This is definitely a good start.
I like most of this video, but a subtle clarification should be made: true literary analysis is about figuring out what the *author's* theme is. You don't first "pick a theme" and then find quotes to back it up. You instead use the elements of the to gradually discern the *author's* theme. If you want to write a paper called "What I got out of Cinderella", then randomly choosing a theme first is fine, but if you want to truly analyze Cinderella for what it is, the theme is the ending point, not the starting point.
@@zaamea by author's theme, I mean what the author intended for the audience to get out of the work, the central idea in *their* mind. This video makes it sound a bit like you can just find quotes in the book to back up any theme you want. 🤷♂️
Aren't you going in the opposite direction? You chose a theme and then analyzed the text to justify your choice. Shouldn't you analyze the text first to let the analysis lead you to a theme?
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I think this is a great vid. However, for me, when proposing a theme it should only be tentatively held while searching the text for evidence that proves the theme. This is because, in my own view, one must be open to evidence that might suggest another theme. Ideally, one would move back and forth between proposing a hypothesis (or theme) and looking at the evidence in the text. I will concede I have almost no training in literary analysis but from what I know this would make sense to me. Thanks.
So you just said what she said?Because basically she said use details in the text giving those examples of imagery,character,etc and use that to support a theme.
You’re right, TEZ. The themes should be derivative, not imposed upon the text. Authors usually coordinate themes through design patterns. One of the easiest ways to trace a theme is to look for repetitions and patterns.
That's pretty easy to do if you read the book or whatever you're analyzing. Not everyone wants to read a 600 pages book just to end up with a theme that it's " work for what you want " 😂 It could be a really good story actually but the thing is that IT'S TOO LONG 💔💔
So, yes, one person’s analysis might indeed differ from another’s since most pieces of literature have more than one theme. In addition, even if your chosen theme is the same as a classmate’s, what you think the piece of literature says about that theme (your analysis) might be different. And finally, the literary elements you use to prove that the meaning of the story is accurate might also be different from your classmates. So, yes, each person’s analysis might be different. Hope this helps!
Every story has a theme, or else it wouldn't have a story---the deal is that the theme is what YOU understand to be the meaning of the story. So, you want to think about a topic that is involved in the story (e.g. money, war, fear, survival, honesty, faith, heroes, acceptance, journeys, rebellion, etc. etc.). Then you use that topic to decide what you think the story is saying about it, and that is the theme. This cool handout from HACC's Tutoring and Testing Libguide can help when you're getting stuck figuring out the theme: libguides.hacc.edu/ld.php?content_id=14849642
Every story has a theme, or else it wouldn't have a story---the deal is that the theme is what YOU understand to be the meaning of the story. So, you want to think about a topic that is involved in the story (e.g. money, war, fear, survival, honesty, faith, heroes, acceptance, journeys, rebellion, etc. etc.). Then you use that topic to decide what you think the story is saying about it, and that is the theme. This cool handout from HACC's Tutoring and Testing Libguide can help when you're getting stuck figuring out the theme: libguides.hacc.edu/ld.php?content_id=14849642
