Chapter One : The Motive For Metaphor The motive for metaphor is the desire to associate and identify the human mind with what goes on outside it. In chapter one of The Educated Imagination, The Motive for Metaphor, Northrop Frye questions literature; What good is it? What is the social value? What is the place of the imagination that literature addresses itself to in the learning process? Will we outgrow it? To try to answer these questions, Frye uses a series of comparisons : objective and subjective worlds, intellect and emotion, arts and sciences, what we have to do versus what we want...

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