Herman Northrop Frye was a Canadian literary critic and literary theorist, considered one of the most influential of 20th century.Northrop Frye developed a theory of literature based on myths and Archetypes. 1. What is Archetypal Criticism? What does the archetypal critic do? In literary criticism the term archetype denotes recurrent designs,pattern of action,character-type,themes and images which are identifiable in a wide variety of works of literature,as well as in myths,dreams and even social rituals. The archetypal critic tries to find this pattern,symbols and myths in present literary work. 2 .What is Frye trying prove by giving an analogy of ' Physics to Nature' and 'Criticism to Literature'? Northrop Frye has given a very unique idea of Archetypal ...