Name :- Goswami Gayatri  M

Paper :- 04 Indian writing in English

Assignment:- The dramatist’s purpose blind rewriting the myth

Sem :-  1- part -1

Submitted to

        S.B.Gardi.department of English

                   Bhavnagar university

v    The dramatist purpose blind Rewriting the Myth :-

v    Myth:-

    “A Myth is a well know story  with which was  made up in the past to explain natural events or to justify religious beliefs or social customs”

       In classical Greek “mythos” significant any story or plot, whether true any story or invented.

     In its central modern significant however , a myth is one story in a mythology.

    There is a famous greek myth in which icarus flae to near to the sun.

    Contrary to the popular myth , women are not reckless spendthrifts .

The myth a system of hereditary stories of ancient origin which were one believed tobe true by particular culture group ,and which served to explain in terms of the intention and action of laities and other supernatural being why the the world is as it is and things happen as they do ,to provide a rationale for social customs and observance , and to established the sanctions for the rules by which people conduct their lives.

          Most myths are related to social ritual,

          Set forms and procedures in screed ceremonies ,but anthropologists disagree as to whether ritual generated myths .

See Levi-Strauss , “the structure study of myth , “in structural anthropology (1968), and refer to structuralism criticism and semiotics .

          It can be said that a mythology is a religion wich we do not believe.

Poets , however ,after having ceased to belive them , have persisted in using the myths of Jupiter , venues , Prometheus ,Wotan  , adom and Eve , and jonah for their plats ,Episodes , or allusions; as coleridge said” , “still doth the old instinct bring back the old names”.

               The tern “myth” has also been extended to donate supernatural tales that are deliberately invented by their authors

                 Plato in the fourth century BC used such invented myths in order to project philosophical speculate action beyond the paint at which certain knowledge is possible; …

                The German romantic authors Schelling and friedrich schlege proposed that to write .great literature , modern poets must develop a new unifying mythology which will synthesized the insights of the physical science

                 In the same period in Englend William Blake  , who felt “I must  create a system or be Ensloved by another man’s , Incorporated in his poems system of mythology he had himself created by fusing Hereditor myths ,biblical history and his Owen intuitions ,vision and Intellection .

                 A number of modem writers have also asserted that an integrative mythology , whether Inherited or Invent , is  Essential to literature.

               James Joyce in Ulysses and Finnegan’s wake , T.S .Eliot in the waste land , Electra ,and many  other writers have deliberately woven their modern on the pattern of ancient myth ,while W.B.Yeats ,like his admired preseason blank , undertook  to construct his own systematic mythology ,witch he expounded in a vision (1926) and Embodied in a number of remarkable lyric poem such as “the second coming  and “Byzantium”.

               Around the middle of the twentieth century , “myth” in contemporary criticism , became a permanent term in literary analysis .

           A large group of eriters ,the myth critics .

 “ The mythical  world of Moby”.

“The Truth of  Myth”

    Myth is usual acceptation of the word ,belongs to the ream of the imagination , which as such is distinct from ,even opposed to ,the would of reality .

The Presting of the cosmogony myth

            A myth related a sacred story ,that is say, it recounts a primordial event that occurred at the beginning of time. But to tell a sacred story is equivalent to revealing a mystery . because the characters in a myth are not human being.

            “the logic of mythopoeia thought”

    We have hitherto been at pains to show that for primitive man thoughts are not autonomous, that they remain involved in the curious attitude toward the phenomenal word which we have called a confrontation of life with life.

   “Mythic thought in the ancient near east”

      Before philosophy is an attempt by certain members of the oriental institute in Chicago to recover and expound “the view which the ancient peoples of Egypt and Mesopotamia took of the world in which they lived.

“Myth and the old testament”

(john l. mckenzie).   “Definition of myth”

The initial difficulty in our topic is the definition of myth .the Oxford English dictionary defines myth as “a purely fictitious narrative usually involving supernatural person ,action ,or events ,and embodying some popular idea concerning natural or historical phenomena”.

“mythology”

“As is the world on the blank

So is the mind of the man”.

“only the tract where he sails

He wots of :only the thoughts,

Raised by the objects he passes ,are his”.