h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

...or poetry, or photographs, or art in general is this:

To make the analyzed medium earn obscene amounts of money, rendering it inaccessible to the less-knowledgeable.

Once people started analyzing art, it ceased to be about "what you like" and became "what's worth the most". People analyze stories and read all sorts of meanings and allusions into them, and who's to say whether or not those meanings were intentional? I'd like to see a professor analyze a story by an author who is still alive, then have the author say whether or not his/her analysis is accurate.

Similarly, analysis is a tool used to torture students everywhere. No one should read literature or view art simply because they enjoy it! No! It should be picked apart, analyzed, and generally ruined (i'd say something stronger, but i don't want to get moderated; i think this is important to say) until there are no traces of feeling or enjoyment left in anything.

That, my friend, is the point of analyzing a story.



Can you tell I'm tired of school yet?

Ga. Don't even start on literary analysis. Our teacher broke the news to us today that we probably won't have any creative essays for the next 3 years because the curriculum demands the other types of essays. *sob*
Can I hate school with you? Utterly and completely? Forever?!
I've given my last literary analysis to cheathouse.com . I figure that someone can use it in the future- perhaps it'll save a grade.

Thanks for your comments guys!