purpose of suggesting an identity between the human mind and the world outside it. .
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In Chapter Two, Northrop Frye looks deeper into the theory that everything is new, and .
yet recognizably the same. He says that writers produce second hand imitations of what they had .
been reading, which for the most part is true, I refuse to believe it to be the case for everyone. .
Frye uses the example of a new born baby to show his point. They baby is new, a new human .
being, but humans as a race are not new, the baby is just a new form of what was already there. .
What he means is there is a pedigree for every new idea. Everything new, is built upon the old. .
For example, the highly conventionalized Cinderella story. The original story had Cinderella as .
a slave to her step mother and sisters and the prince fell in love with her. This story is the .
pedigree for a million stories just like it : She's All That, Maid in Manhattan, Pretty Woman. The .
stories are the same, except for minor differences, instead of Cinderella being a house servant, .
she is simply a dork with hidden beauty, and instead of the prince, it's the captain of the football .
team. One of the differences between older literature and newer literature, Frye says, is that as .
society advances the more complex the conflict needs to be. People have more needs than they .
used to, more needs = more intense conflict. This does not mean we cannot recognize primitive .
literature anymore, it can still be seen in religion , magic and social ceremonies everyday. .
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Chapter Three :Giants In Time.
At the beginning of chapter three, Northrop Frye poses the question "What kind of reality .
does literature have?" , and the majority of the chapter is spent trying to answer it. Frye decides .
that what we meet in literature is neither real nor unreal. He says that there are two words, .
imaginary, meaning unreal, and imaginative meaning what the writer produces, and that they .
