Ramo‚ Reinan D. BSA II-4 Reaction Paper: Oedipus the King Prophecies‚ it is a presumption from extraordinary being‚ maybe from the prophets‚ gods or goddesses about the destiny of somebody. In the classical story of Oedipus the King‚ the story revolves about the prophecy made by the god about the destiny of Oedipus. It is a classic literature from the Greek mythology. It is a story about the young boy that was destined to kill his father and will commit incest by being the husband of his mother
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stimulation derived from Oedipus Rex is in the unraveling of the protagonist’s fate. By the hands of the gods‚ almighty King Oedipus is prophesized to take his own father’s life and marry his mother. Never has a man stood so tall and fallen so hard. In Poetics‚ Aristotle describes the tragic hero as “not eminently good and just‚ not completely under the guidance of true reason‚ but as falling through some great errors or flaw of character‚ rather than through vice or depravity.” Oedipus largely embodies
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Period 1 22 May 2012 Tragic Character and Plot in Things Fall Apart Despite being written in 1959 and set in Nigeria‚ Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe reads much like a Greek tragedy. AmidstPrinciples from Aristotle’s theory of tragedy in the Poetics are evident throughout the novel‚ and contribute to the development of the protagonist and the incidents of the plot. Amid the images of slaves‚ missionaries‚ and western colonialism‚ Achebe uses these principles to create a tragic character and
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said in his Poetics that tragedy is a form of imitations of “events terrible and pitiful.”. Aristotle believed that a tragic person should be a good person at core and that others feel compelled to care about him. According to Aristotle‚ a tragic hero should make make errors and judgment and his perception of reality is distorted. He also believed that a tragic hero should “elicit both pity and fear from the audience” (Characteristics of a Shakespearean Tragic Hero). In his Poetics‚ Aristotle also
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Aristotle defines the tragic hero in his work titled Poetics‚ which expands upon the definition of a tragic hero. The short story “Medea‚” written by Euripides‚ and the play “Hamlet‚” written by Shakespeare‚ both present the reader with a tragic hero. “Medea” is the ideal story in which one can see the tragic hero‚ and this can be contrasted to “Hamlet” in order to see how Aristotle’s definition of a tragic hero in Poetics presented. According to Poetics‚ the tragic hero in “Medea” is Jason and the tragic
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low mimetic and ironic; tragedy is about human isolation‚ comedy about human integration. In the Poetics‚ Aristotle (384-322 B.C.) compares tragedy to such other metrical forms as comedy and epic. He determines that tragedy‚ like all poetry‚ is a kind of imitation (mimesis)‚ but adds that it has a serious purpose and uses direct action rather than narrative to achieve its ends. He says that poetic mimesis is imitation of things as they could be‚ not as they are‚ for example‚ of universals and ideals
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Mankind’s Place In the World: Oedipus Aristotle’s Poetics: Comedy and Epic and Tragedy comments on the reflection of reality by it’s very imitation. As with comedy being an imitation of the inferior and ugly‚ the role of the epic and tragedy follow the roles of characters of great importance. The idea being that only those of importance are even noticeable in the eyes of the gods‚ since mankind is relatively insignificant and are nothing more than an amusement to the gods. As the children
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Seat number 45 Serrano‚ Wrenz Carlo I. In Aristotle’s Poetics‚ he described what a tragic hero is with several characteristics‚ and in the Greek Tragedy of Sophocles; Electra‚ the main protagonist really has some of these characteristics. In terms of Aristotle’s definition of a tragic hero‚ Electra is considered as a tragic hero. First
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to explain why that is‚ it is important to understand the meaning of Greek tragedy‚ as opposed to modern tragedy. How can a hero in a Greek tragedy be defined? The most widely accepted definition of Greek tragedy was written by Aristotle in his “Poetics”‚ where he details the various characteristics that make a protagonist a hero in a Greek tragedy. Based on Aristotle’s definition‚ there are three main characteristics in “Oedipus the King”‚ among others‚ that show that Oedipus is a hero in the eyes
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as a tragic hero‚ and tragic plot were evident throughout the play. Also‚ the feeling of catharsis at the end-which is proper of tragedy‚ was clearly identifiable. I. Fences fits into the tragic genre based on the points given by Aristotle. In Poetics‚ he defines tragedy as "the imitation of an action that is serious and also as having magnitude‚ complete in itself." • Aristotle’s idea is that the plot has a beginning middle and end and all parts follow each other in concise fashion. o In the
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