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GREEK TRAGEDY
  • Aristotle - Poetics

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Aristotle
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Aristotle
  • Greek philosopher
  • Student of Plato
  • Teacher of Alexander the Great
  • Writings include many topics physics, logic,
    rhetoric, politics, and theatre (poetics
    literature)
  • His ideas shaped medieval and Renaissance thought

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Concept of Tragedy
  • Found in Poetics
  • Tragedy is the imitation of an action that is
    serious or the imitation of an action of a higher
    type.
  • Considers the noble
  • Considered highest form of literature.
  • Should arouse pity and fear aim of tragedy
  • Should be instructive
  • Learn from others mistakes

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Comedy
  • What makes us laugh?
  • the imitation of an action of a lower type.
  • Considered inferior to tragedy
  • Exploits of average people, not heads of state
    (classical sense)
  • From Aristotle to Seinfeld, laugh at the
    incongruous, the ugly

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Comedy vs. Tragedy
  • Tragedy is for the boardroom or the battlefield
  • Tragedy is ennobling (makes us stronger).
  • I suffer therefore, I am.
  • Comedy is for the bathroom or the bedroom (human
    sexuality)
  • Types include
  • banter
  • slapstick
  • the mixup
  • malapropisms
  • It was beyond my apprehension.
  • That was a real cliff dweller.

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Comedy
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Elements of Tragedy
  • 1. Reversal someone of great stature takes a
    fall (reversal of fortune)
  • 2. Flaw in the Greek harmartia- fall is due
    to an inherent problem in character for Greeks
    this was commonly HUBRIS

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Elements of Tragedy, cont.
  • 3. Suffering I suffer therefore I am.
  • 4. Discovery through suffering, the character
    finds out the error of his ways, yet it is too
    late to change events (Know thyself.)

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Elements of Tragedy
  • 5. Catharsis a cleansing of emotion, a
    purgation, a purification for the audience.
  • Audience is able to identify with tragic
    character. Vows never to commit such an act.
  • A good cry

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Tragic Elements- 6. Resolution
  • End of action the problem has been solved
    all wrongs have been righted.

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Resolution
  • Also called the denouement
  • The exodus
  • In Sophocles, the resolution involves making
    peace with the gods.
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