ITT: trite ways to interpret works of fiction I'll start:

>>9020867
The curtains were fucking blue.

>>9020867
There's literally nothing wrong with either of these.

>anticipates <event>

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>X is the greedy capitalist
>Y is the exploited working class

>the moral of the story is...
I swear this is a fucking embarrassing mindset to have past age 8

>>9020867
>it's an allegory for—
No it fucking isn't, stop paring it down to thin twigs.

>>9020867
>X really acting on libidinal drive to do Y

is Robinson alter-ego of Bardamu?

But what if alter-egoiness is so fucking visible after reading authors bio (i.e. Steppenwolf)?

>>9020867
>I didn't like to see him go
>I didn't like him, he was so mean

>>9021196
This is literal pleb-tier. This thread is for pseudy things only sorry.

>>9021196
Hardly an 'interpretation'.

>the human condition

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>>9020867

>character X is actually an ideal human being, but their ultimate, unfortunate circumstances are the result of flaw Y in the world

>protagonist X and antagonist Y are the thesis and antithesis of a dialectic, their interactions are the dialectic in motion, and the work concludes with the author's proposed synthesis

>the work is merely a way for the author to preach ideology X

>this work is [ideology] bullshit
>this work is a greatest proof to join [ideology]

> They were dead all along and in purgatory

Literal meme analysis

>>9021384
literal tvtropes meme

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>physical manifestation of pure evil

>>9020867
Are you calling persona a bad film

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>The increasingly chaotic events represent the protagonists descent into insanity

>an exploration of what it means to be X

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>Character represents the author's dad

>>9021873
It makes sense if the author is female. Women literally never get over their dads.

>it was about man's inner struggle with X

>Gregor Samsa didn't reeeeeeeaaaaaaaaalllllly turn into a roach

>>9021252
what if the work is literally a dialectic ?

>>9021183

It doesn't matter, you still have to deny this obvious interpretation for the sake of /lit/ contrarian rubbish, which is all that matters.

>>9020867

Who cares if it's trite if it's true? Are we supposed to invent wacky new ways to look at literature upside down just because you're bored?

> Stop saying you had a good time at the party, James, it's so trite.

>>9022046
being quiet is an option too you know

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>>9021183
>mfw hesse's poetic bio at the end was the best part of steppenwolf

>but what if they did X
>why didn't they just do X
>I hate this character
>I like this character
I fucking hated book discussions in high school

>>9021403
o'connor is full of this

>i'm rating this book 1 star because I hated the character so much. He was such an evil person and I just couldn't get over how bad he was.

>>9021415
But Hamlet was insane :^))))

>I found it enjoyable
>it is good
>it is a beautiful work of literature and contains intimations of a higher reality

When will plebs realize that the earnest appreciation of things has no place in the 21st century dialectic?

>>9021912
Then you recognized authorial intent. Anyone can do this. It's trite, or at the very least trivial.

>this part represents this freudian idea that the author never knew about and that has been shown to be bullshit

>>9022050
This. The most pseud thing you can do is say things that don't add to the conversation just so you feel like a part of it.

>really spoke to me

>>9022046
Nothing is true, you pleb.

>>9021048
>>9022046

There's nothing wrong with these proposition itself, they just sometimes sound lazily, like

>dude Raskolnikov and Razumikhin are the same person LMAO

>x means y

>>9022648
It does have a place but you have to communicate it ironically.

>the curtains are fucking blue

>>9023607
read the thread before you post