Lecture Summary: Medieval and Allegory
- Allegory:
- Extended Metaphor
- TSTL Heroines = Too Stupid To Live
- readers irrationally rationalize them because they have previous knowledge of the story - makes stories plausible
- Medieval Allegory: figures personify qualities like gluttony or truth
- Everyman:
- how to refer to something having the qualities from a different era
- EX: Romantic/romantic ; Existential/existential
- J.P. Sartre was an Existentialist/my cat's existentialist qualities are impressive
- Archetype: a plot, setting, symbolic object, or any other element of fiction seen repeated over and over with its core meaning unchanged
- James Frazer believed that myths have similarities from culture to culture
- Carl Jung speculated that the reason for these recurring patterns was the "collective unconscious" shared by all humans
- Monomyth: one myth so pervasive that it unifies almost all other mythology (described by Joseph Campbell)
- Northrop Frye postulated that there is one story being repeatedly told - sometimes telling the whole story, sometimes just a part - but all can be placed into a greater context
- Romance: travels full circle
- fundamental societal text
- happy ending
- Tragedy: only a fall
- sad ending
- Irony: begin and end at a low point
- "anti-romance"
- Comedy: only a rise
- appears during periods of social strife
- social rewards of money or love
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