Organic unity
The organic moiety is that one thing, there is the idea of interdependent parts. For example, a body is made up of its constituent organs, and a society is made up of its constituent social roles.
Organic unity was propagated as a literary theory by the philosopher Plato . He explored the idea in works such as Politeia , Phaidros, and Gorgias . But it was Aristotle , one of Plato's students, who developed the idea further and discussed it more explicitly.
In Plato's Poetics, he compared the narrative and plot of the drama with the organic form and presented it as "a complete whole, with its various events so closely linked that the relocation or withdrawal of one of them dissolves the whole and off balance. " Plato suggests removing any love interest, any joke, any conventional expectations, rhetoric or ornament from a literary criticism and philosophy . Plato's Republic takes the natural principle of the birds of a flock of feathers as a prerequisite for an organic form.
In Poetics (Aristotle) (c. 335 BC), Aristotle describes Organic Unity by explaining how writing internally relies on narrative and drama to hold together; but without a balance between the two sides, the work suffers. The main theme of organic unity is based on a free, lively style of writing, and if you stick to any guidelines or genre-based habits, the true nature of a work becomes stifled and artistically unreliable.
The concept of organic unity gained popularity with the New Criticism movement . Cleanth Brooks (1906–94) played an essential role in modernizing the principle of organic unity. Using the poem "The Well Wrought Urn" as an example, Brooks shared the importance of a work's ability to flow and maintain a theme so that the work gains momentum from beginning to end. The organic unity is the common thread that prevents a theme from breaking up and falling apart in the course of a work.
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- ↑ Organic unity: literature ( English ) Retrieved February 2019.