Republic of the Philippines

Region III Central Luzon

TARLAC STATE UNIVERSITY
Villa Lucinda Campus, Tarlac City
College of Teacher Education
Center of Development

EL 113
LITERARY
CRITICISM
Submitted By:
Sebastian, Gladys Gail C.
BSED ENGLISH 3B

Submitted To:
Professor Elizabeth P. Balanquit
PROFESSOR

PSYCHOANALYTIC CRITICISM
CROSSWORD (PRE-TEST)
1. Displacement
2. Projection
3. Unconscious
4. Defenses
5. Condensation
6. Denial
7. Avoidance
8. Death
9. Thanatos
10. Eros
APPLICATION ACTIVITY
“A ROSE FOR EMILY”
A rose for Emily focuses on a woman who struggles with being unable to cope
with the death of her father. Miss Emily describes as a lonely woman who have a lot
of mental problem like depression and even necrophilia or being sexually attracted to
the corpses, I think the reason why miss Emily have this kind of illness is because her
father was very strict on her that no one is able to court her because her father did not
like her suitors for her (none of the young men were quite good for her).
The story begins by describing the scene of Emily’s funeral. Many people went
on her funeral, some are went to show respect and affection and some are went it’s
because they are just curious on what inside the house. The story is actually flashback
because the ends with the narrator’s memory of the towns discovery of the corpse in
the Grierson home after Emily’s funeral. Throughout the story, the narrator flashback
and forth through different events in the life and times of Emily and the town of
Jefferson.
The story show’s that pleasure can be bad if it is uncontrollable because the
character of Miss Emily show’s that her I’D swallowed her that she’s still sexually
attracted to the Homer, her lover even his body was decaying. I know that everyone
have an I’d principle that sometimes it is good to feel pleasure but remember that
pleasure is dangerous if you can’t control it just like what happened to Miss Emily.
She doesn’t care if the body of her lover was decaying.

IDENTIFICATION (POST-TEST)
1. They are the processes by which we keep the repressed in order to avoid knowing
what we feel we can’t handle knowing.
 Defenses
2. This occurs whenever we use a “safe” person, event, or object as a “stand- in” to
represent a more threatening person, event, or object.
 Dream displacement
3. This imagery can include caves, rooms, walled-in gardens (like the ones we see in
paintings representing the Virgin Mary), cups, or enclosures and containers of any
kind.
 Female imagery
4. This is used to refer to a painful experience that scars us psychologically.
 Unconscious
5. This imagery can include towers, rockets, guns, arrows, swords, and the like.
 Male imagery
6. A dysfunctional bond with a parent of the opposite sex that we don’t outgrow in
adulthood and that doesn’t allow us to develop mature relationships with our peers.
 Oedipal fixation
7. The belief that we are less worthy than other people and, therefore, don’t deserve
attention, love, or any other of life’s rewards.
 Low self-esteem
8. The chronic and overpowering feeling that emotional closeness will seriously hurt
or destroy us and that we can remain emotionally safe only by remaining at an
emotional distance from others at all times.
 Fear of intimacy
9. Modifying our memories so that we don’t feel overwhelmed by them or forgetting
painful events entirely.
 Selective memory
10. Ascribing our fear, problem, or guilty desire to someone else and then
condemning him or her for it, in order to deny that we have it ourselves
 Projection

REACTION PAPER (IMPORTANCE OF LITERARY CRITICISM)

If a tree falls in the forest without anyone there, does it make a sound? Literally
speaking, Yes. It will make a sound but no one will notice it because no one is there to
inform everyone that the tree was fall. Let’s talk about novel or any piece of literature.
“If nobody talks about your novel, has it really emerged on the literary scene? In my
personal point of view if no one talks about my novel, my piece will not recognize by
everyone because no one knows about the novel that I made. That’s why literary
criticism is very important because it allows us to see things from different
perspectives. Also it helps us to understand what is important about the text, it’s
structure, it’s context, social, economic, historical, what is written; how the text
manipulates the reader to further explain.
For me literary criticism can be applied in our real life experiences, let say we do
something wrong and no one is there to correct us, your mistake will continue until it
become a habit because no one is there to correct you; to guide you. I do believe that
this literary criticism is the best way to improve your work because literary criticism
refers to analysis and judgement of works of literature and also helps us to understand
different ways of examining and interpreting them. Through criticism everyone’s
work can improve because different opinions exerts in one piece. Criticism is not
commenting bad on a work rather it is about evaluating and analyzing. Why do we
have to analyze everything? Talking about experiences enhances our enjoyment of
them; talking about experience involves the search for meaning which increases our
understanding of them because Socrates said so: “The life which is unexamined is not
worth living”.
“The accessibility and ability for anyone to comment about virtually anything on
social media has in some instances created a hostile environment”. I am strongly
agree in this sentence, I know that not all people will agree on our perspective. There
are many cases that when someone shares their thought on social media there are
some people who will put negative comments on the content, showing to the owner of
the post that he/she is wrong; her/his belief is wrong. I know that sharing our personal
perspective is good, there’s nothing wrong with it. What is not good is the other
people who will attack your opinion in a negative way because they do not know the
word “respect”.