The Conventional Aspect

In the second chapter of this book the idea that struck me as most profound was that regarding conventional literature. The reason this surprised me so much was when Frye talked about books such as the Bible and Greek mythology and how a lot of those stories are actually very conventional. Although in a religious sense the Bible takes on a lot of meaning it is an interesting concept to think that the stories in it can many times be very conventional and how sometimes today stories like that can be easily perceived as 'corny'. But Frye makes a good point how some of these greatest works of literature although written thousands of years ago are conventional. Once being introduced to this idea I can definitely agree with Frye on this point and see it as a very important one with regards to literature.