IB Literature: Presentation on Literary Criticism Essay Analysis

This assignment is a PowerPoint presentation designed for an IB Literature class, focusing on literary criticism. The presentation analyzes two essays, identifying key arguments, discussion points, and the thesis of each. It highlights specific passages from the essays, focusing on literary criticism techniques. The presentation includes an annotated version of the essays using color-coding and side notes. The analysis includes critical perspectives on William Golding's work, specifically "Lord of the Flies," and explores different types of literary criticism such as Mimetic, Rhetorical, Formal and Expressive, and their functions. The presentation aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of literary criticism and its application to literary works.

Literary Criticism
Essay Analysis

What is literary criticism
• Literary criticism is a method which is used for
the interpretation of a given work of
literature. The various schools of the literary
criticism provide people with the lenses
through which the significant aspects of the
literary work can be seen

Different types of literary criticism
• The basic types of the literary criticism are the
Mimetic , the Rhetorical, the Formal and the
Expressive.

Functions of the literary criticism
• It introduces the works or the authors that
was unaware till now.
• It also convinces that one has undervalued an
author or a particular work due to not being
read carefully.

Best part of essay 3
• The name of the essay of William R. Muller is
An Old Study Well Told.
• The novel of Golding is presented as the
parable of the fallen man.

Literature Criticism
• William R. Mueller has criticized the “ Lord of
the Flies “ which is a translation of the Hebrew
word Baalzebub or the Beelzebub.

Reference
• GAMI, L. (2016). VIOLENCE AND EVIL IN WILLIAM GOLDING’S LORD OF
THE FLIES. Re-Entering Old Spaces: Essays on Anglo-American
Literature, 282, 209.
• Qadir, I. A. A., & Al Ghizzi, A. A. F. (2018). Facework in the Fictional
Dialogue of Golding’s “Lord of the Flies” in Terms of Brown & Levinson’s
Politeness Theory: A Pragma-Stylistics study. Journal of Basra
researches for Human Sciences, 43(2), 32-50.’
• Rahmatullah, W. S. (2016). Explicitation Strategy in the Translation of"
Lord of the Flies". Al-Ma'mon College Journal, (28), 246-261.
• Vargas, J. C. S., & Vargas, J. R. S. (2017). Human Degradation: A Text-to-
Film Comparison of the Human Hunts in Connell’s “The Most
Dangerous Game” and Golding’s Lord of the Flies. Revista de Lenguas
Modernas, (27).