Care And Myth: Chain Of Life Of Human Society

Northrop Frye（1912–1991）, representative of the archetypal criticism,renowned scholar of canada. His life work is very abundant, devoted all his lifeto the construction of a complete theoretical system, his theory to become anindependent school of international culture theory, is a prominent literary critic,is one of the most famous thinker and theorist in twentieth Century. In the laterstudy career, Frye presents unique "The Myth Of Concern" concept, themovement relation between literature and society together to study, and toexplore the relationship between ideology and literature in the process ofdevelopment of human society and the role of social production. In this thesis,theoretical system of Frye--" The Myth Of Concern " as the starting point tostudy Frye’s theory of ideology, and combined with social status since twentiethCentury, pay attention to the study of social and human, with particularemphasis on the social function of the myth, not limited to Northrop Frye’sarchetypal criticism theory system, and more on the system theory study on thecultural and social and political mutual penetration.This paper aims to start from the foundation of social development, researchconcern myth theory system of Frye. Since the "Anatomy Of Criticism", Frye is the prophet that the "Encyclopedia" myth, Frye to archetypal criticism ofliterature, the literature as a social fact, and a kind of communication skills.Therefore, he does not reject the popular culture, he thought that literature andart itself is a part of public life. While in the "The Critical Path", Frye predictedCulture--Art--Society--politics interaction is more and more deep andintense trend. The basic concept of the myth of concern for a morecomprehensive explanation, analysis of the theoretical system of Frye’s myth ofconcern, the interaction of mythology and ideology, and points out that Frye oncritics, expresses the deep great expectations, as well as for the contract tosociety through education "has become an ideal better" expectations.One of the ideal, is that not Frye is completely utopian fantasy. On the one hand,Frye attaches great importance to education, he argues that contemporary culturemust rely on education,"education" and "culture" in the future one trend isinevitable. Even more than the tip of the Pyramid University of education, alsois not comprehensive. Social form, humanistic education, Frye hoped forhimself, also is a kind of "social outlook", or, to return to the basic viewpoints ofFrye’s: a myth narrative (a mythology).Frye says, all the time there is a structure--the structure, by thought, belief,imagery, anxiety and hope; the structure is influenced by its social recognition,can accurately convey that one time for the situation and human destiny view. This structure is "myth narrative", and the composition of each unit of which is"myth". Myth is the person of its own "concern" performance, always withhuman center to see the world. In people’s anxiety, contemporary socialabsurdity and alienation of society is increasing with the development of scienceand technology, combined with concern myth and the myth of freedom, if canproduce balanced tension, can make the society more harmonious to maintainvitality, this is another aspect of the ultimate development of Frye’s theorysystem is the focus of this hope, the paper discussed the direction.In this paper, besides preface and conclusion, is divided into four chapters. Thefirst chapter briefly expounds Northrop Frye for basic definitions of "myth",classification of myth shift pattern, and the root cause of myth shift: thedevelopment of human society. Also introduces basic concepts of the myth ofuniverse and life in the chain, with particular emphasis on the permeability ofthe chain of life in social culture and art.The second chapter introduces the ideology theory system of Frye--the myth ofconcern, mainly introduces Frye’s two classification of the myth of concern: theprimary concern and secondary concern, and elaborates the basic equivalencemyth of concern and ideology.The third chapter focuses on the myth of the "concern" components (ideology)development. Myth from the initial "oracle" inviolability, to gradually by ideology tampering, a lot of "demythologizing", and ultimately by the logosreplaced myth, myth is all break process.The fourth chapter briefly discusses the myth of concern of the solution to thecrisis: the education contract and cultural criticism, and introduces the conceptof free myth, discuss the relationship between the myth and the myth of concernand freedom, as well as in the contemporary society practice effect.In the conclusion part, summarizes development the role of the myth of concernin social.