When you apply a critical perspective to literature, you read a selection through a particular lens or frame. an example is the social or historical perspective would be viewing literature as it reflects issues in society at the time it was written. what would best define the archetypal perspective?

London includes a quote about john thornton as he is observing hal attempt to motivate the exhausted dogs "it was idle, he knew, to get between a fool and his folly". if the word "idle" is defined as "of no real worth, importance, or significance", what does this statement mean with regard to hal? who is the fool? what is hal's folly? why would john thornton think it of no real worth or useless to intervene?