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Formalism is a style that focuses on the form or structure of an object rather than its content or meaning. It gives more importance to how something is presented rather than what is being presented. Formalists believe that if the form or structure is correct, then the content will be effectively conveyed, regardless of what that specific content may be. Formalism also holds that spiritual or psychological truths can be revealed through analyzing the form or structure alone. Formalist critics may distort or manipulate forms to uncover deeper meanings or essential truths about life.

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Final Output in Eng.23

Formalism is a style that focuses on the form or structure of an object rather than its content or meaning. It gives more importance to how something is presented rather than what is being presented. Formalists believe that if the form or structure is correct, then the content will be effectively conveyed, regardless of what that specific content may be. Formalism also holds that spiritual or psychological truths can be revealed through analyzing the form or structure alone. Formalist critics may distort or manipulate forms to uncover deeper meanings or essential truths about life.

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My Final Output in English 23 – Formalism Criticism

Submitted by: Elie James B. Larida


BSED – English Student

Submitted to: Ms. Jeannyrose I. Goyha


English 23 Instructor
Formalism reflection

Formalism is a style, a style that has no content, no backstory to explain what the

object we are looking at is because the form tells us everything we need to know. Formalism

gives more importance to how an object is presented than how it is explained like how the form

may be a window and a guy outside or a painting of a window with the guy outside of it. Most

formalist say that if the form is followed correctly then the content will be expressed well so in

layman’s terms if picture or sculpture looks good and not to abstract then the content or story

will match what most people perceive it to be. If the content for a type of form is different the

from remains the same example clown with balloons near children that’s the form the content

could be there is a birthday party, carnival or fair, or a sexual predator luring children with

balloons whatever the content the form stays the same. Formalism is densely symbolic to mean a

variety of things depending on race, culture, or religion. Let us take a cross or a star most Anglo

Saxon Protestants might see the cross as a religious symbol while most Arabic or Hebrews might

acknowledge the star as a holy symbol. Formalism says that spiritual or psychological truths are

revealed through structure or form. By using the correct form and characteristics of formalism

one will expose truth. Formalist use distortion and manipulation to uncover essential truth so by

changing an image even more they try to find truth from it. Formalist twist words and images out

of their natural shape and change or reorganize them to suit a propose basically they change

words meaning to fit what they think the form means and that’s ok because form is what the

creator wanted it to be but other people sometimes do not agree with that. Formalist believe

everything has a deeper meaning and make it their job to uncover what is basic or necessary or

reveal some important belief about life.


Formalism is something people in their everyday lives use like when meeting

someone new you look at the form of there facial features, tall or short, and fat skinny you still

have not heard there content but by just looking at the form you judge them by what their form

tells you. In truth formalism is sometimes unfair and unjust like when a pretty girl goes to court

and is accused for homicide most people will judge the outside form and assume innocent but

then one day she comes in without her makeup and pretty clothes assuming your judging by form

you would now accuse her guilty. Form is one of the most difficult and yet simplest things out

there. It’s explanation is the most difficult to understand yet when put into practice a child has

more of a chance to understand then most matured or older people. If only form was and maybe

is an idiotic idea it would make more sense describing it as idiotic so that people would be

confused with a reason that reason being that it is idiotic. Yet formalism is something used to

define a form without any knowledge of content in order to make the person think what the

content is which seems confusing but people use it subconsciously while they know it or not.

Formalism also gives an upper hand to con men while their form presents a confident

trustworthy person their content is actually sinister where they just want one thing to feed their

greed. Form to be used often should be no surprise once people know what form is. According to

formalism it focuses on how something or someone is presented not what is being presented

saying that the content does not matter and to most people content really does not matter just

how they present themselves or image.

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