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Group 6 CHARACTER ANALYSIS THROUGH A GRAPHIC ORGANIZER (Engl Ed 117)

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Group 6 CHARACTER ANALYSIS THROUGH A GRAPHIC ORGANIZER (Engl Ed 117)

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Group Members:
Bumay-et, Hazel
Dela Cruz, Romarie
Estacio, Christine Joy
Malabato, Noreen
Pascual, Jes
Pojas, Julianne
Sinday, Jaysryl

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THE NATURE, FUNCTIONS, AND TYPES OF MYTHS

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THE NATURE, FUNCTIONS, AND TYPES OF MYTHS

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1. The Nature of Myths

Myth is a symbolic narrative that is associated with religious belief. It is distinguished from symbolic behavior (cult, ritual) and symbolic places or objects (temples, icons).

Myths are specific accounts of gods involved in extraordinary events in a time that is unspecified.

To become a myth it needs to be old enough to not be easily fact-checked.

Myth derives from the Greek word "mythos" which has a range of meanings from “word,” through “saying” and “story,” to “fiction”.

Myths are stories with no factual basis.

People’s myths reflect, express, and explore people’s self-image.

2. Functions of Myths

Myth is mystical - giving a sense of wonder and mystery to the universe.

Myth attempts to explain the mystery.

3. Types of myths

Creation Myths

Myths of gods and goddesses

Trickster Myths

Myths of Death, the Underworld, and Resurrection

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APPROACHES TO THE STUDY OF MYTH AND MYTHOLOGY

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APPROACHES TO THE STUDY OF MYTH AND MYTHOLOGY

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1. Allegorical Approach

An allegorical interpretation of a myth could be said to posit a one-to-one correspondence between mythical “clothing” and the ideas being so clothed.

Tends to limit the meaning of a myth, whereas that meaning may, in reality, be multiple, operating on several levels.

2. Romantic Approach

In the late 18th century, artists and intellectuals emphasized the role of emotions in human life and, correspondingly, to play down the importance of reason.

Romantics are the ones involved in a movement called the Romantic movement who showed interest in the study of myth.

3. Comparative Approach

Since the Romantic movement, all study of myth has been comparative, although comparative attempts were made earlier.

For there to be any philosophical inquiry into the nature and function of myth at all, there must exist a body of data about myths across a range of societies. Such data would not exist without a comparative approach.

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APPROACHES TO THE STUDY OF MYTH AND MYTHOLOGY(CONTINUATION)

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APPROACHES TO THE STUDY OF MYTH AND MYTHOLOGY(CONTINUATION)

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4. Folkloric approach

Collecting and classifying mythological themes through ancient folklore and stories

More or less homogeneous in ancient and popular peasant traditions and basic to all formation of myth according to Wilhelm Mannhardt.

5. Functionalist approach

Viewed that all types of society, every aspect of life every custom, belief, or idea makes its own special contribution to the continued effective working of the whole society.

6. Structuralist approach

Myth is based on the analogy of myth to language.

It aims at uncovering what it sees as the logic of myth and argued that supposedly, primitive thought should be supposedly logically consistent.

7. Formalist approach

Vladimir Propp investigated folktales through their basic elements and dividing them, these elements correspond to different types of action but always occur in the same sequence.

Walter Burkert uses Propp’s approach to detect certain recurrent patterns in Greek myths and relates to basic biological or cultural “programs of action.”

He shows how certain Greek myths have a recurring pattern that he calls “the girl’s tragedy”, this pattern is the fact that it reflects a basic biologic sequence; puberty, defloration, pregnancy, delivery.

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RELATION OF MYTHS TO OTHER NARRATIVE FORM

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RELATION OF MYTHS TO OTHER NARRATIVE FORM

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1. Fables

Features personified animals or natural objects as characters.

Always end with teaching morals about human social behavior.

2. Fairytales

Stories about an individual, almost always young, who confronts strange or magical events.

Directed above all at an audience of children.

Examples are “Jack and the Beanstalk,” “Cinderella,” and “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.”

3. Folktales

Stories that reflect simple social situations and play on ordinary fears and desires.

Examples are encounters between ordinary, often humble, human beings and supernatural adversaries such as witches, giants, or ogres; contests to win a bride and attempts to overcome a wicked stepmother or jealous sisters.

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RELATION OF MYTHS TO OTHER NARRATIVE FORM (CONTINUATION) 

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4. Sagas and Epics
A. Saga

A legend or a long story of adventure or heroic deed.

Saga is Old Norse - “what is said.”

B. Epic

Extended narrative poem in the elevated or dignified language. Celebrating the feats of a deity, demigod, or another legendary hero.

The relationship between epic and myth is not easy to pin, but it is generally true that epics characteristically incorporate mythical events and persons. An example is the ancient Mesopotamian Epic of Gilgamesh.

5. Legends

A traditional story about the past. The main characters are usually kings or heroes.

Examples of well-known legends include the Tales of Odysseus from Ancient Greece,  Beowulf from the Norse lands, and King Arthur from Old England.

Like myths, legends were thought to be true.

6. Parables

Short narrative illustrating a lesson (usually religious/moral) by comparison or analogy.

It may clarify something to an individual or a group but do not take on the revelatory character of myth.

Parables have a more subservient function than myths.

7. Etiologic Tales

Etiology refers to the description or assignment of causes (Greek aitia).

Explains the origin of a custom, state of affairs, or natural feature in the human or divine world.

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1. Explanation of facts

Myths seek to explain how and why things came to be.

It play an important part in many traditional systems of education.

2. Justification or Validation

Myths explain ritual and cultic customs.

It provides a rationale for a society's customs and practices.

Central mythology - tells the origin of the cosmos and how the world came into existence.

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FUNCTIONS OF MYTH AND MYTHOLOGY (CONTINUATION)

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FUNCTIONS OF MYTH AND MYTHOLOGY (CONTINUATION)

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3. Description

Describing what people can never see for themselves.

Myths are even more bound up with descriptions than explanations.

Myths form the most important available model of instruction.

4. Healing, renewal, and inspiration

Creation myths play a significant role in healing, they use them as an example of magical incantation.

Celebrating the origins of their own art ad renewal.

Mythical themes and images as a source of all self-expression.

Mythology also exerted an aesthetic influence in more modern societies.

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