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Archetypal Criticism on O. Henry’s Short Stories

Author: LuMei
Tutor: WangXiaoLing
School: Anhui University
Course: English Language and Literature
Keywords: Myth Prototype O. Henry Characterization Theme Narrative structure
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Type: Master's thesis
Year: 2011
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Abstract

O. Henry, the original Ming Weilian Sidney Porter (William Sydney Porter ,1862-1910) is a famous American writer of critical realism, Maupassant, Chekhov and known as the world's three short story writer, and more Critics hailed as the father of modern American short story. Humorous language for their works, the surprising ending, perspective ways of the world theme and do a more comprehensive analysis of domestic and international critics and literary enthusiasts from the point of view of critical realism, structuralism. But the works of O. Henry's \In this paper, the Canadian literary critic Northrop Frye archetypal criticism as a theoretical basis, a number of short stories of O. Henry text study, the focus from the characters, theme, narrative structure, excavation works of O. Henry Bible prototype to further understand the writer's religious thought and humane care complex. Archetypal criticism popular in the 1950s and 1960s, 20 an important criticism of the Western genre. The founder of the Canadian Northrop Frye (1912-1991). In 1957 he published the famous \Fry believes that the literary origins in myth, the myth in all its forms and themes exhibited the influence future generations of literary development. Fry the whole Western literary history of the development of a prototype symbolic images constantly replacement replacement of a regular process of evolution. Frye called the \O. Henry's short stories and more little people living at the bottom of society, as the protagonist, although the story is different, but most of the performance figures \Careful scrutiny, we can easily find these characters behind its prototype. Families who are charged in the burden of the \The old painter Bellman epitomized the spirit of the sacrifice of Jesus. From the words and deeds of the \The literary theme of the Bible; \The Cop and the Anthem \From between the lines of the novel, we can see that the O. Henry for the good wishes of the Christian praise and hope of religious salvation. The prototype of this thesis from Frye criticized theory analysis of the O. Henry short story works its prototype of the Bible from the characterization, theme, structure, and concluded: whether consciously or unconsciously, O. Henry indeed used many times, the novel the Bible prototype portrayed express their themes, erection story structure. This proves once again that \O. Henry, on the other hand, praise the ordinary people in real life expressed pessimism and disappointment. As he laments in \see social inequality, and resentment at the unfairness of the law, but struggling not find the most effective way to resolve the contradiction, and can only hope that the appeal of the religions of the world. This is the background of his life and the times and class limitations.

Archetypal Criticism on O. Henry’s Short Stories

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