downfall.Along with a tragic hero‚ the perfect Aristotelian tragedy must equip their tragic hero with a tragic flaw. This tragic flaw that the tragic hero acquires shows the tragic hero’s‚ “weakness of character‚ some moral blindness‚ or error” (Poetics Of Aristotle).This weakness would soon lead to the downfall of the tragic hero.Soon after Victor gathers the necessary information and knowledge his tragic flaw soon begins to spiral out of control when
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CRITICAL APPRECIATION OF DRAMA FIRST ASSIGNMENT: TRAGIC HERO DR.LAJIMAN JANOORY GROUP A SEMESTER 3 2012/2013 FARIDA HAMIMI BT MUHAMAD SAIDI D20111047721 AT06-TESL FACULTY OF LANGUAGES AND COMMUNICATIONS Questions: Aristotle in the Poetics defines the tragic hero as someone who is neither excessively evil‚ someone who is rather like ourselves‚ who falls from prosperity into adversity because of an error and/or character falling. Discuss this statement with close reference to main characters
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Imitative Art A Comparison of the Philosophies of Plato & Aristotle And the Ultimate Beneficial Nature of the Tragic Drama By: Stephanie Cimino In the various discussions of imitative art there has been a notable disagreement between two distinguished philosophers; Plato and Aristotle. Although it was Plato who first discussed the concept of imitative art‚ it is my belief that Aristotle was justified in his praise and admiration of imitative art‚ specifically‚ the tragic drama
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Tragedy in Aristotle’s Poetics a) Aristotle wrote that a tragedy must have unity of plot. What does this statement mean? By this Aristotle means that the plot must be structurally self-contained‚ with the incidents bound together by internal necessity‚ each action leading inevitably to the next with no outside intervention. According to Aristotle‚ the worst kinds of plots are “‘episodic‚’ in which the episodes or acts succeed one another without probable or necessary sequence”; the only thing
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King Lear the Tragic Hero In his Poetics Aristotle defines Tragedy as “an imitation of an action that is serious‚ complete‚ and of a certain magnitude“(Part VI). By Aristotle’s definition‚ a Tragedy imitates human experiences and the misfortunes that can accompany them. It builds and eventually purges pity and fear in readers‚ all while teaching and entertaining. While Tragedy can often be unpleasant or intense‚ “one needs to stand by at some time to Oedipus and hold the knife of his own most terrible
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unity of time‚ place and action. For example in RTTS‚ the story happens in one day‚ in a kitchen and there is only one plot. All in all‚ RTTS is considered a MGT because it has the characteristics of the GT described by Aristotle in the “Poetics” and‚ at the same time‚ because it is shorter than them.
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Over the centuries theorists have tried to develop different kinds of approaches to what should and should not be in terms of literary theory and criticism. In here we will discuss three different theorists (Aristotle‚ Longinus‚ and Wordsworth) from three different theories (mimetic‚ pragmatic and expressive) and explain their rules and thoughts to what is "good" literature. Later on‚ we will apply each theorist’s theory to William Blake’s "London"‚ and whether it works well with the theory or not
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Othello - Act III Scene III Othello by william shakespeare is a tragedy thought to have been written in the 1600s‚ and is undoubtedly one of shakespeare’s most celebrated pieces of work. The play deals with many themes such as jealousy and deception‚ and good and evil‚ all of which are centered around the tragic hero O. Throughout the play it has been discovered how Othello‚a black man‚ has overcome the racist views of others living in that time period‚ and married the beautiful white woman Desdemona
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Comedy and Tragedy | | Comedy According to Aristotle (who speculates on the matter in his Poetics)‚ ancient comedy originated with the komos‚ a curious and improbable spectacle in which a company of festive males apparently sang‚ danced‚ and cavorted rollickingly around the image of a large phallus. (If this theory is true‚ by the way‚ it gives a whole new meaning to the phrase "stand-up routine.") Accurate or not‚ the linking of the origins of comedy to some sort of phallic
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Literature 13 (1973): 273-284 Boston:Wadsworth‚ 2006. Battin‚ Pabst M. “Aristotle ’s Definition of Tragedy in the Poetics.” The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 33 (1975): 293-302 Brown‚ Dr. Larry A.. Aristotle on Greek Tragedy. Jan. 2005. Field‚ B. S. Jr. “Hamartia in Death of a Salesman.” Twentieth Century Literature 18 (1972): 19- 24 Golden‚ Leon‚ trans. Aristotle ’s Poetics. With Commentary by O. B. Hardison‚ Jr. New Jersey: Prentice-Hall‚ 1967 Hutchens‚ Eleanor N. “The Identification
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