Post #6 – Pentadic Criticism, Selections for Critical Essay #2

 

Act: Eating a Snickers

Agent: Jeff

Agency: Becoming a diva

Scene: A hot, stuffy car

Purpose: Satiating his hunger (to remain himself)

Ratios:

Act-Agency: yes

Act-Agent: yes

Act-Purpose: yes

Act-Scene: no

Agency-Act: yes

Agency-Agent: no

Agency-Purpose: no

Agency-Scene: no

Agent-Act: no

Agent-Agency: no

Agent-Purpose: no

Agent-Scene: no

Purpose-Act: yes

Purpose-Agency: yes

Purpose-Agent: no

Purpose-Scene: yes

Scene-Act: no

Scene-Agency: yes

Scene-Agent: yes

Scene-Purpose: yes

Dominant Term: Act (more than likely)

~If Jeff didn’t eat the Snickers, he would remain a diva, making the car ride miserable for everyone. The Snickers is seen as a ‘cure-all’ to the problem; later on, the passenger in the front turns into another diva, but if they were to eat a Snickers, he would return to his normal self. The other conditions will remain, but the act of eating a Snickers makes things better.

For my Second Critical Essay, I think I”ll use generic Criticism to analyze Bruno Mars and his discography. Even though he is a remarkable artist and his sound is amazing, I want to pin it down exactly and see what is genuine and what is ‘unlike’ him. the argument (or issue) could be each album has a distinct flare to it, but then it would be another job of finding what makes it Bruno.

~ by Abigail Haskins on April 5, 2018.

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