ENGLISH_GRADE 10-Moralist Approach.pptx

Moralist approach

1. Moralist Approach Literary Criticism

2. What is Moralist Criticism? Moralist Criticism is a type of literary critique that judges the value of the Literature based on its moral lessons or ethical teachings.

3. Moralist Criticism in simplest form: Determine the worth of literature by seeing if it encourages good out of the reader.

4. Aspects of Moralist Criticism Literature that is ethically sound and encourages virtue is praised. Literature that misguides and/or corrupt is condemned

5. Things to consider For a moral criticism to evaluate the Maturity Sincerity Honesty Sensitivity Courage

6. History of Moral Criticism 01

7. Began since 360 B.C. The Great Greek Philosopher Plato argued that literature and art had the ability to influence people. These influences could cause corruption and virtue.

8. The best poetry has the power of forming, sustaining, and delighting us, as nothing else can… More and more mankind will discover that we have to turn to poetry to interpret life for us, to console us, to sustain us.

9. Utilitarianism is  a theory of morality , which advocates actions that foster happiness or pleasure and oppose actions that cause unhappiness or harm.

10. REMEMBER! MORALIST APPROACH A tendency-rather than a recognized school-within literary criticism to judge literary works according to moral rather than formal principle.

11. REMEMBER! MORALIST APPROACH The importance of literature is not just its way of saying but also what it says. The larger purpose of literature is to teach morality and to probe philosophical issues.

12. TRY THIS!.. Using the Moralist Approach

13. The Road Not Taken 01 by Robert Frost

14. Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth;

15. Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear; Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same,

16. And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I kept the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back.

17. I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.

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