Literary Criticism:Plato's point of view

Literary Criticism:Plato

What is the nature of literature or what is literary criticism?,these are the general and basic question which aroused when people heard or read about the art.Philosophy of life and art is the basic fundamental foundation developed by Greeks of 5th B.C which is served as basic theoretical and practical criticism.These were the 5th century Athenians who pondered upon the purpose of literature and the question of writing and reading itself.From that time a debate on function and nature of literature started.They started formal literary criticism of literature.Many critics developed their principles according to literary criticism.Plato is a critic about whom it is said that who laid the foundation of the central issues of both literature and philosophy,relation of society and people,ontology,epistemology,concept of beauty and morality etc.Many western philosophers contributed to criticism but about Plato,it is said by Alfred North Whitehead,a modern British philosopher:

"All of western philosophy is but a footnote to literature".

A contemporary of Plato,Aristophanes,a comic dramatist showed little bit practical criticism but Plato systematically begins the study of criticism and literary theory.Plato says that spirituality is reality.Every material thing is a shadowy replica of that thing which is present in its ideal form in the spiritual realm.He gives an example of a chair that if a chair exists in this material world then that chair is not real,this chair is the shadowy replica of that chair which is present in an ideal world and if there is no chair in that ideal world then a chair in this material world can not exist.

Before Plato and his Academy,Greeks developed their world through poetry and narratives to find or discover the truth.They made their own theories of goodness and others.

After the invention of Plato and his Academy,philosophical terms and abstract things got the position of narratives.

Plato wrote above the door of his school,

''Let no one enter here who is not a geometer''.

If material world is nothing but only a shadowy replica of real world then poets are not writing real things.They just copy the things which they see in this world as real and according to Plato,they are just creating copies of copies of real things.

Plato says that a poet's craft has no value because a copy is a copy and copy of copy is nothing and worthless.

Plato says that these people are imitators of reality and that who makes copy of anything can not be trusted.

Plato condemns all the poets to extreme level that he wants all the poets to be banished.

After realizing the needs of poets in the society,He says that only good poets and who are honorable in the state can be tolerated.By compiling literature and politics,a new debate started concerning the nature,value and worth of art and literature which is also a complex theory of literary criticism.

Summary of Gulliver's Travels

Summary of Gulliver's Travel is a great subject or outline for the students of English Literature.Jonathan Swift is the writer of Gulliver's Travels and this is very great name in English Literature. This piece of prose basically consists on four voyages of Gulliver which he completes and he does not know that to where he has to go.He looks different types of people through these voyages.He looks that at some place the people are very tall,on the other he looks that they are very small.The height basically shows according to my perspective that people are very cruel as well as very kind.Their attitude is different with different people.Their behavior is different and as a reader I think that their height shows their attitude and latitude to some extent.Now Gulliver tells through his voyages that there was a party system in England and people fight for minor issues.Big endians and little endians are the examples of their nature that they fight by deciding this that an agg should be broken from the big end or from the small end.He also shows that the political system was not good because all the political parties just want to get success and try to create disputes among different parties.He a tells in Gulliver's Travels that there were sects and people just started to fight with one another on the religious bases.Political parties just got the profit of the people through their rhetoric techniques.He also describes the foolish activities at that time which scientists adopted.Like while making a building,roof should built first and then its base etc.The main thing in part 4 in Gulliver's Travel is this that man's repute has been decreased to an extreme level and he has been linked to yahoos.Yahoos are very bad and cruel and that have not any reason and in this literature man has shown as worst thing to the society.So,it is a type of criticism on the society,its social and political systems.This piece of literature depicts the condition of even our today political scenario.The political parties just want their seats and they generate confrontation among the supporters and meat with one another after implementing the idea of take and give.Religious conflicts also show that sects are not creating love among others but disputes and people fight on these basis.Jonathan Swift wrote a master piece of literature 'Gulliver's Travels' in English Literature.

what is english literature?what is literature?

English Literature

In this post I’m gonna tell you that what is literature or English literature.Most of the people think that literature is an art and especially English literature.They are right to some extent but I want to clear this one thing that literature is an art but it doesn’t need any specific language but it is a proper language in itself too.Literature is a thought or feeling which describe itself in its own language.Most of the writers say that Literature is the mirror of life.

Literature or English literature is like a river which flows and there are many things in river like mud,stones and water.Now this is the beauty of literature that it settles mud under the water and pure water comes on the top.Literature according to my point of view is ”To describe our thoughts,feelings and emotions in a good manner is called Literature”.One thing which is very important is this;There is nothing wrong or right in Literature either in English literature or in any language of literature,Its all up to you that what you feel or what you thought is pure literature.

literature is the drama of life.Your actions and attraction,taking and giving everything is literature.

Literature is the only thing which tells and shows its own beauty.

Literature is that thing which bridges a gap between human to humane.

Literature is the thing which teaches humanity to the people that never say nobody’s wrong ,they are just giving their suggestions or just using their right of freedom of speech.

Literature is not boring ,it just changes and gives you the new directions of thinking and feeling.

Literature says that dreams are most important than the deeds.Actions and doings are after the thinking of that work.Taking decision is more important of the task to complete that task and thinking and idea about that task is the basic thing than the completion of that task.Literature basically concerns with the basic of that things than their completion.English literature is that literature which is called a naked literature by some persons but this is then when we compare it with our society but according to their society this is their greatest literature.That literature is also in the books and literature depicts the society and grants us the thinking and their standard of living.

Behind every book,there is an author who wrote that book and he is describing his thoughts and life experience in words.

Literature is an amalgamation of philosophy, reason and psychology. Many people wrote books and they granted to us.Literature is that thing which should be spreaded everywhere.Words are that thing which can’t be arrested in the book.These live in the mind and grow up then expressed.

Literature gives beauty to life.It changes the way of expressing things.It gives you a positive sense even in a negative thing.This is the attratcion of literature that everyone loves it even in any proper language.Because everyone is in the literature.Our antediluvian’s history is in this and we who love or hate to someone also get thoughts from literature.