Literary_Theory

Literary Theory Georg Lukas was a Marxist theorist who developed the literary theory of reflection. His main idea was that literature should be a reflection of reality. I believe this theory relates very well with the morals in the book Squids Will be Squids. Lukas said, “To ‘reflect’ is to ‘frame a mental structure’ transposed into words. People ordinarily posses a reflection of reality, a consciousness not merely of objects but of human nature and social relationships.” Lukas could have understood the morals in Squids Will be Squids as reflections of reality. They are mental frameworks that we live our lives by. Alberto Eco was a reader-orientated theorist and his idea of open and closed text could be a useful tool in describing the morals of Squids Will be Squids. In an open text piece of literature there are many gaps for the reader to fill in. Closed text literature left no information for the reader to fill in. I believe that these morals are better suited to be viewed as open text. The last moral in Squids Will be Squids says “If you are planning to squids, theory, text, morals, moral, reflection, says, reader, idea, functions, fairy, events, certain, theorist, stylistics, story, red, reality, open, mean, lukas, little, literature, function, cap, affective, way, viewed, useful, think, theories, tales, tale, six, said