Name: Brijal Oza
Roll no.: 23
M.A. SEM: 2
Year: 2015 – 2017
Paper: 7, Literary Theory and Criticism
Email ID: brijaloza1994@gmail.com
submitted to: Department of English
M.K. Bhavnagar University

Northrop Fry’s
Inductive
Method
Deductive
Method

Northrop Frye
 Canadian educator and literary
critic.
 Wrote on Canadian literature –
published in 1951.
 The term “Archetypal” means
original idea or pattern of
something of which others are
copies.
 Archetypal approach is the
interpretation of a text in the
light of cultural patterns
involved in it, and these
cultural patterns are based on
myth and rituals of nation.

Reach to a conclusion based on observation.
From particular to general – means, readers learns the
general truth of life that is called inductive method.
Proceeds inductively from particular truths.
In simple words – first introduced the examples and then
the rules.

Example of Inductive Method
This Cat is black. That Cat is black. A third Cat is black.
Therefore all cats are black.
This marble from the bag is blue. That marble from the
bag is blue. A third marble from the bag is blue.
Therefore all marbles are blue.

Example of Inductive method
 Conclude that “Oliver
Twist” as a dark novel.
“Oliver
Twist” as a
dark novel
class
conflict
Religious
conflict
Victimiza
tion of
women
Macabre
of child
labor

 The conclusion is already given and we have to give example
supporting that conclusion.
 From general to particular – means, analysis, proceeds to
established the meaning of work from the general truth to
particular truth.
 In simple words – first introduced with the general rules and then
examples.

Example of Deductive Method
Bachelors are unmarried men. Varun is unmarried.
Therefore Varun is a bachelor.
All men are mortal. Kim is a man. Therefore, Kim is a
mortal.

Example of Deductive Method
 Conclude that Fagin was a
villain of the novel “Oliver
Twist”.
Fagin as
a villain
Pick
pocket
Ugly look
& dark
character
Brutal,
cruel
character
Temptati
on of
money

 Literature can be interpreted in as many ways as possible.
 These methods are useful for critics and it can derive reader in
new direction and vision of any literary work.
 If we want to interpret in different way through this methods,
center and periphery can be changed.