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one should be very careful in doing the analysis with this criticism because it deals with the “psycho” and it is not something easy because “psycho” is something unseen.Yet, it can be said that psychoanalytic criticism is useful to abalyse the elements of literary work especially intrinsic element, for instance motivation and feelings that are normally represented by the symbols or sign in literary work.

one should be very careful in doing the analysis with this criticism because it deals with the “psycho” and it is not something easy because “psycho” is something unseen.Yet, it can be said that psychoanalytic criticism is useful to abalyse the elements of literary work especially intrinsic element, for instance motivation and feelings that are normally represented by the symbols or sign in literary work.

post-modernism is meant to enhance the modernism belief. They tend to see things not from the impression and the subject nor even the moral value like in the modernism belief but they tend to see things as a model or an image and undercuts all the history, reality and truth that lies on it.

Post-structuralism is an approach that tries to develop the structuralism approaches.It is to anticipate the language phenomena and also the complex socio-cultures that may be varied together with the engulfment of the society.This new concept of post-structuralism cannot also be separated from the deconstruction method in analysing the literary works.

The concept of structuralism cannot be separated with the fact about analysing one thing in a whole. It has more focuses on the larger structure of literature text that distinguishes it from the liberal humanism. It is simply because liberal humanism will likely see and analyse the literary works from some perspectives only.

The concept of liberalism cannot be separated with humanism in the scope of economic, education, literature and other aspects of the human life. However, the liberal humanism itself is hard to be defined. The reason is because it carries long varied histories from the English studies and its theories. However, liberal humanists believe that human nature is fixed &constant as what the great literature expresses.