Moralistic approach

There are five types of approaches, and here this slide is about Moralistic Approach

1. S. Sunyogita PRINCIPLES OF LITERARY CRITICISM Approaches

2. approaches One of the function of literary criticism is to provide a link between the work of art and the readers In that process he has evolved a few theories. “Approaches”

3. Types of approaches Approach: a way of dealing with a situation Psychological Moralistic Archetypal Formalistic Sociological

4. approaches Approach: a way of dealing with a situation Psychological: psychological insight Moralistic : Moral application to literature Archetypal: Social pattern common Formalistic: Analyzing literary work Sociological: Social Milieu

5. Moralistic critic when a critic judges a work of art with ethical standards his approach is termed moralistic Morality is being one of the principal issues in life To a moralistic critic, the content is more important than the form of a work of art His business is to detect the moral aspect society in the right place He is content if it educates, instructs or direct the society in the right path Moralist discuss topic under “ethical appleal ”

6. Moralistic critic To the function of the literature is to first teach moral values and them to delight The function of the moralist is to exhort, to a moralist a work of art without didactic purpose is inconceviable .

7. The beginning of moralism Right from P lato to the present day, critics have emphasized on the writers duty to uplift the citizen, to elevate their character and to make them more serviceable to society. Plato is chiefly concerned with the moral attitude in the work of art

8. “Aristotle pleasure is the end of poetry but he does not ruled out teaching if it is incidental to the pleasure that the poem gives” “Horace views that poetry should both teach and delight with a greater stress on teaching”.

9. Renaissance period The Renaissance writers stressed the moral value in the work of art To Sidney poetry is superior to philosophy, history, and science because it has a moral end.

10. Neo classical period The moralism continues in the neo classical period also To D ryden the poet is neither a teacher nor a bare imitator, but a creator and his concern is to delight than to instruct

11. Alexander pope- a staunch moralist stressed the importance of the morals aspects in a work of art Dr. Johson the great champion of the 18 th century liked to judge a work of art by its moral content. He praised Milton’s “Paradise lost” because it is a moral poem

12. Romantic period In the Romantic period also importance was given to the didactic element in literature Wordsworth declared himself to be a teacher Shelly imagination is the best toll to make the poem morally good

13. Ruskin the moralist declared that all the fine arts must be didactic, he praised art because it is moral Arnold praised Wordsworth, he substituted poetry for religion in an age when peoples faith in religion was shaken by the progress of science and the evolution theory of Darwin

14. Twentieth century In the twentieth century writes like H.G Wells and Somerset Maugham stressed the value of moral in the work of art D. H Lawrence a real work of art must have a moral

15. T.S Eliot the Christian humanist declared that a greatness of literature should be judged from moral or religious standards

16. T.S Eliot the Christian humanist declared that a greatness of literature should be judged from moral or religious standards

17. The neo- humanist Neo humanist are a group of writes in the twentieth century, whose main intrest in literature lies in literature as criticism of life. Moral evaluation has been chiefly expressed by these Neo- Humanist. The oppose Naturalism and Romanticism Irving Babbitt was the chief prophet of neo humanism

18. Neo- Humanist Norman Foerester Harry Hayden Clark G.R Eliot Robert shafer Gorham Muson