Dramatica Theory and James Washington Square :: James Washington Square

Dramatica Theory and James Washington Square In this essay I will review a review of James Washington Square. I found the critique to be dry and rather clinical in its approach to this fine work by Henry James. From the outset the article presents a cold psychological approach to the characters that James has made live for me in the short novel. The article covers the characters name, gender, a short description of him or her, the berth that character plays in the piece and then goes on to reheel the basic characteristics of him or her. Motivation, methodology, evaluation and purpose are the four characteristics that are used to get a line a character. The analysis does refer to the original work in many places. I found this to be helpful. For example when it describes Catherine Sloper it takes a quote from the novel to list her as, a dull, plain girl she was called by rigorous critics (James 11). This did help redeem the article somewhat. But the basic problem I found with the analysis unploughed leaping up. Its too scientific an approach for any literary work. The main problem with Dramatica, for me, seems to be in that the theory controls at a story in relation to, the minds problem solving process (What is Dramatica?). This area of the website goes on to explain that an author must examine all possible solutions to an issue in the story. In an effort to prove that the authors solutions are the best. The Dramatica theory of critique states that if, you have covered every angle in your argument, youve mapped all the ways an audience might look at the problem and, therefore, all the ways anyone might look at that problem (What is Dramatica?). This mapping turns any piece into a psychological pseudo have and relieves it of any beauty that it may contain.