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How to present a full
analysis?
• Initial decisions
• Establishing the components of your
analysis
• Other arrangements of components
• The basic pattern of analysis
Initial decisions
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The length of the analysis
The number of aspects of analysis
Time
Emphasis
• Once the writer has decided how many aspects
he will include, he then needs to arrange them in
particular order designed to reflect his intended
emphasis
Establishing the components of your analysis
• Once the initial decisions have been made
we should select the areas of analysis
which he wants to cover and then arrange
them in an effective order.
Other arrangements of
components
• In writing an analysis of a play we must consider
the various ways of ordering out aspects of
analysis.
• After that we must consider possible ways of
ordering these aspects
• In the first place it is obvious that we need to
begin by stating our intention of analyzing the
play in two basic ways—technically and
thematically
Full analysis
• I. Statement that we will analyze the play
• II formal analysis: Structure of the play, the
characters, the action of the characters
and the rhetorical usage of the characters
• III. Interpretations of the play
General pattern of ordering
• From easy to more complex aspects of
analysis, from usual to unusual aspects,
from standard rhetorical-style examples to
special, peculiar rhetorical-style examples,
from structure to character, from character
to action, from action to theme, from
theme to interpretation.
The basic pattern of analysis
• The full analysis of a play would treat the
following subjects in this order:
1. An introduction to the paper explaining
that this is to be a full analysis of all
aspects of the play.
2. definition of the world of the play – its
location, atmosphere, emotional
framework, etc.
The basic pattern of analysis
3. Explanation of the structure
4. Discussion of the characters
5. The language and rhetoric of the play
6. Interpretations of the play, emphasis on
your own view of the play, even it is
largely similar to that of another critic
The basic pattern of analysis
7. Evaluation and criticism: this forms, in
effect, the conclusion to your paper and
should stand not as an isolated
component but rather as the crowning
section of your paper, to some extent
dependent upon, and to some extent’ a
summary of everything else in your paper