ACTIVITY 3

NAME: VIRGULA, KRISTINE P. YEAR & SECTION: BSED-ENGLISH 1

Date: January 31, 2023 Score: ______________________

Assessment:

1. What is Historical Criticism?

Historical Criticisms examines the origins of earliest text to appreciate the underlying
circumstances upon which the text came to be. It is a type of literary analysis that is the
historical approach to literary criticism. It involves looking beyond the literature at the
broader historical and cultural events occurring during the time the piece was written. In
historical criticism, researchers often consider comparable texts from the same time
period, utilizing other resources to come to a greater understanding of how a specific
text interacted with its environment when it was written. It has two types; the external
criticism in which it determines the authenticity of the source and the internal criticism
that determines the historicity of the facts contained in the document.
2. Discuss the importance of Historical Criticism.
There are two importance or goals historical criticism have. The primary goal of historical
criticism is to discover the text's primitive or original meaning in its original historical
context and its literal sense or sensus literalis historicus. This will help people to know
more the origin or the truth from something that happened in the past since it means to
discover a text original meaning. Also this will prove the authenticity of the historical text.
The secondary goal seeks to establish a reconstruction of the historical situation of the
author and recipients of the text. Historical criticism will also tells us the lives of the
people wrote the historical texts before and how they survive through different
circumstances. It will give us a clear visual of what is life from the past looks like and will
give us the chance to reconstruct those in these generation. Through Historical
Criticism,critics are able to determine the origins, authors, and sources of the text and
they areable to arrive at a conclusion whether the text is unaltered or not.
3. How can the writings of history be objective or subjective? Explain.
Though it is hard to attain objectivity in writing history, there are still some wayson how writings
of history can be objective.To start, history must be written by someone who is knowledgeable,
has an interpretive mind, and has no agenda to change the truth. Second, the historian needs to
research all the narratives that are connected to the event or subject he is writing about.
Objectivity can be attained if information are presented completely and faithfully by a
credible author. History is subject to subjectivity because writing history includes
assumptionsand personal judgments of the writer. Because certain events happened so long
ago, and because sometimes the evidence is incomplete, different historians have different
approaches and views about what happened in the past. This is the subjective nature of history.
One historian claims an event happened a certain way, while another disagrees completely.