DRAMA

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DRAMA

• Information to achieve
• TONE

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Aristotle

• Poetics
• Sophocles plays
• Theban legends
• Antigone
• Oedipus
• Oedipus Rex

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High Character/Protagonist

• HERO/PROTAGONIST
• Super-human strength
• Magic
• Leader brave courageous
• Conceited et.al.HUBRIS/HARMARTIA

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Common Man

• Tragedy is the consequence of a mans total
  compulsion to evaluate himself justly
• The tragic right is a condition of life
• Man to wholly realize himself
• From this total questioning of what has
  previously been unquestioned, (life), we learn
  and the common man can do this
• The indestructible will of man to achieve his
  humanity.

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ALL Drama

• Instills
• PITYwhile it happens to someone namely, the hero
• FEARthat it may happen to us, the audience
• 4th wall--audience

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DRAMA PLOT SEQUENCE
CATHARSIS (Audience) Learn)
PERIPETIA (Events/Reversal)
RISING ACTION (Conflict) Exposition
NEMESIS (punishment)
HUBRIS (FLAW Pride/Self-Confidence)
RESOLUTION (Falling Action)
HAMARTIA (Main Character Flaw)
DENOUEMENT
ARISTOTLEAN POETICS
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Anticlimax

• Protagonists Downfall

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Antithesis
High Character Hero/Protagonist
Dies tragedy
Antithesis Anticlimax
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Catharsis/INSIGHT

• What did you learn?
• How did it make you feel?
• Why do we still read today?
• Global implications/Big Picture?

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Writing about Drama

• Insightcommentary (your thoughts to the
  catharsis ?s)
• Detailquotes you use for support/evidence
• More commentarywhat you think
• Why do you think that?
• More commentary