Formalist and Moralist Approach

1. Examines all the elements of a text individually to discover

   how they form an organic unity.

• Formalist Approach

• Moralist Approach

2. It focuses on judging the value of literature according to moral lessons or ethical concerns.

• Formalist Approach

• Moralist Approach

3. Determine the worth of literature by seeing if it encourages good out of the reader.

• Formalist Approach

• Moralist Approach

4. Questions how they come together to create a work of art.

• Formalist Approach

• Moralist Approach

5. Allows the text to reveal itself.

• Formalist Approach

• Moralist Approach

6. Uses religious teachings of morality as basis

• Formalist Approach

• Moralist Approach

7. Analyzes how the elements work together to form the unity of structure and to give meaning to the

  text.

• Formalist Approach

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8. Scrutinizes the point of view, structure, symbols, tone, theme and other elements or literary

  devices.

• Formalist Approach

• Moralist Approach

9. Samuel Johnson once stressed in his novel entitled, The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia the following words: “I have here the world before me; I will review it at leisure: surely happiness is somewhere to be found… Happiness must be something solid and permanent, without fear and without uncertainty.” He simply recounts the story of a prince ‘who escapes from the valley of happiness,’ to search for perpetual bliss. However, he realizes that this kind of happiness does not exist

• Formalist Approach

• Moralist Approach

10. Through Phoenix’s strenuous journey in the wild country of Natchez Trace, Eudora Welty uses her protagonist to symbolically show the struggle of African-Americans toward equality and integration in the South after the Civil War

• Formalist Approach

• Moralist Approach