is not an ordinary man‚ but a man with outstanding quality and greatness about him. His own destruction is for a greater cause or principle. -Usually of noble birth -Hamartia – a.k.a. the tragic flaw that eventually leads to his downfall. -Peripeteia – a reversal of fortune brought about by the hero’s tragic flaw -His actions result in an increase of self- awareness and self-knowledge -The audience must feel pity and fear for this character. c) What roles do reversal and discovery play
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As the main character in the Greek classic “Antigone‚” Creon undergoes recognition and a reversal of fortune. Recognition is defined when the main character changes from ignorance to awareness. Reversal of fortune is described as a turn in fortune‚ usually from good fortune to bad fortune. Creon is also a better fit to Aristotle’s criteria of a tragic hero because the definition of a tragic hero is someone who holds great status and has hamartia. Harmartia is defined as a major character flaw that
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Empathy in Oedipus the King Summary: Evaluates how empathy is created‚ used‚ and entwined in Sophocles‚ "Oedipus the King." [pic] Empathy is achieved when one experiences direct identification with‚ understanding of‚ and vicarious experience of another person’s situation‚ feelings‚ and motives. In Sophocles’s Oedipus the King‚ it was the character Sophocle’s’ task to represent the story without deviation‚ but to do it in such a way as to evoke the most horror‚ pity and in particular achieve
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Aristotle thoroughly describes his understanding of the tragedy in the Poetics and bases this conception on certain requirements. According to Aristotle the three most important variables that define a tragedy are plot‚ characters‚ and theme. Using Oedipus Rex as a sort of ideal‚ this philosopher demonstrates how a tragedy functions in order to evoke catharsis while exploring themes and human flaws‚ or mistakes. In Oedipus Rex‚ the main figure‚ Oedipus the King is a subject of fate‚ unable to escape
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What formal features of Romeo and Juliet might lead critics to categorise it as a tragedy? To analyse the formal tragic features of Romeo and Juliet which could lead to its critical classification as a tragedy first and foremost is the understanding of the formal definition of tragedy as given by Aristotle and the understanding of it with regards to Senecan tragedy which provided the model for Elizabethan tragedy‚ and the contemporary view of tragedy. Aristotle’s formal elements of tragedy
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Exam Name: UGC- NET / JRF Examination Subject: General Awareness or GK (Second Paper) 1. Which novel has a nameless narrator? (a) Moby Dick (b) Anna Karenina (c) Invisible Man (d) The Grapes of Wrath 2. Samuel Beckett wrote - (a) Volpone (b) Mother Courage and Her Children (c) A Doll’s House (d) Endgame 3. Which one of the following author-book pairs is correctly matched? (a) Elfride Jelinek - The Pianist (b) J.M. Coetzee- Shame (c) Saul Bellow - Herzog (d) Salman Rushdie - Disgrace
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Because Lear is capable of change‚ he becomes a tragic hero; because Antigone is incapable of change‚ she never becomes a tragic heroine. Aristotle defines a tragic hero as someone‚ usually a male‚ who “falls from a high place mainly due to their fatal flaw.” During the highest point of the tragic hero’s life‚ something is revealed to the protagonist causing a reversal in their fortune. This reversal of fortune is caused by the flaw in their character. Tragedy evokes catharsis‚ a feeling of
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Figurative language: Use of words in ways they are not normally used in order to create a distinct‚ imaginative effect or impression. For example‚ in the expression “He sang at the top of his lungs‚” the suggested meaning of the words is understood—not their literal meaning. Hyperbole: A figure of speech that deliberately exaggerates a description about something or somebody to create a desired effect. Irony: A circumstance in which there is a contra¬diction or difference between what is intended
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Aristotelian philosophy teaches that knowing material reality can be achieved by properly identifying the essential traits of things and distinguishing things from other things by forming classification schemes based on those traits. The theory’s great power is that it canproduce useful‚ independently verifiable categories of analysis--if we all can agree on the epic’s essential traits‚ then we can conduct reasonable scholarly discussions about epics. Since Aristotle also was interested (like his
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Oedipus has three nobilities that make him to be very noble; by his birth to Jocasta and Laios he is a prince thus an heir to the Thebes throne‚ by adoption to Polybus and Merope he is a prince and the heir to the throne of Corinth and by election he becomes the king of Thebes. Oedipus example is used by Aristotle as an example of what a hero should be. He said that a hero should be someone like Oedipus or other men of such greatness‚ who are highly prosperous and renowned (Eden‚ 2014). It is seen
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