Main Definition of Terms
Critics who use The Formalist approach concentrate on the whole of the literary works because each of the esthetic part contributes a harmony to the complete
work as a whole. Critics, who use The Biographical approach to judge literary work need to understand the important knowledge of the author’s personal life. A better
understanding could be facilitated by some useful information taken from the biography of the writer and the biographical provision itself. To understand The
Socio-cultural- historical approach we need some assertions as references such as
socio, cultural and historical background. According to Rohrberger and Woods, those assertions are based on; firstly, literature is not created in a vacuum, secondly,
literature form significant ideas to the culture that produced it. Critics, who use the Mythopoeic approach
to judge literary works, attempt to find particular recurrent patterns of human thought, which are considered sharing the same universal belief to
certain community mind. The Psychological approach involves various theories of psychology to explain the characters’ personality in a story. Each character’s
behavior could be referred to the psychology of human being. Each approach which is described above has its values and limitations. The
important task that has to the readers and the analyst done is to choose the best approach or approaches that suit for their appreciation on a certain piece of literature.
In this study, the writer employs the socio-cultural approach to judge the novel by Jane Austen.
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