is similar in context. This is mainly detectable while considering the way both playwrights depict the condition that has befallen a nation. Aristotle, an outstanding scholar, and craftsman described tragedy as a mimic of a movement that is morally right. He further came up with guidelines towards creating drama in his highly acclaimed book, "The Poetics". In the book, he outlined six parts of drama as the theme; plot, characters, music, and spectacle. Hence with a similar reference to his set guidelines
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CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION Background of the Study Poetry is perpetually re-creating language. It helps understand the world by sharpening our own senses, by making us more sensitive to life. Poetry is thought that is felt. Aristotle says, “There is nothing in the intellect that is not first in the senses”. The poet uses figures of speech and creates images-imitations of life, words that evoke mental pictures and appeal to our senses. The essence of poetry is, according to the different types
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The idea of the tragic hero was created in ancient Greek tragedy and defined by Aristotle (and others). Usually, this includes the realization of the error (anagnorisis), which results in catharsis or epiphany. Aristotle said that tragedy is characterised by seriousness and dignity and involving a great person who experiences a reversal of fortune. Aristotle’s definition can include a change of fortune from good to bad, this affects pity and fear within the audience. Tragedy results in catharsis
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they fall victim to the role of a “doll wife”. In a separate work, Aristotle’s Poetics, an image of the ideal tragic hero is outlined and analyzed. This same idea was used by Sophocles’ creation of Oedipus the King. Nora and Oedipus can be compared as tragic heroes as they both meet the requirements of this status according to the qualities outlined by Aristotle. There are multiple essential characteristics Aristotle claims create a tragic hero. The first is that the character must be good, but
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begin swapping opinions. It is inevitable that people will ponder, discuss, and analyze the works of art that interest them. The informal criticism of friends talking about literature tends to be casual, unorganized, and subjective. Since Aristotle, Plato and other prominent literary critics, philosophers, scholars, and writers have tried to create more precise and disciplined ways of discussing literature. This day, literary criticism provides some general guidelines to help us analyze, deconstruct
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anger, rage, and fighting is a healthy form of catharsis. The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language defines the word catharsis as “a purifying or figurative cleansing of the emotions, especially pity and fear, described by Aristotle as an effect of tragic drama on its audience.” Another definition it gives us is “A release of emotional tension, as after an overwhelming experience, that restores or refreshes the spirit.”(The American Heritage Dictionary of the English
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The question is in Angel Heart, is the elements that our tragic hero witnesses completely integrated to the gripping conclusion or is it more a series of episodes which do not connect; the former being tragedy, the latter being an epic. Aristotle tells that the six elements (plot, character, thought, diction, spectator, song) are required. The characters in a tragedy should be a good man who is consistent and not far away from the reality. In the case of Angel Heart, The viewers follow a virtuous
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Naucratis who claims that the original form of the word tragedy was trygodia from trygos meaning grape harvest, as these events were first introduced during the grape harvest. In 335 BCE Aristotle provides us with the earliest surviving explanation for the origin of tragedy as a dramatic art form in his ‘Poetics’. Here he argues that tragedy developed from hymns and dances of praise to Dionysus; ‘Anyway, arising from an improvisatory beginning (both tragedy form he leaders of the dithyramb,
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to Philosophy Professor: V. Bartolini Date Written: May 1st, 2002 Aristotle Aristotle was born in 289 BC, as the son of Nichomachus. He was born at Stagira in Macedonia, which is located on the northwest coast of the Aegean Sea in Northern Greece. His farther was a friend and also the physician of the King of Macedonia. Since Aristotle's’ farther was so close to the King of Macedonia, Aristotle spent a great deal of his childhood time at the court. Being at the court would later
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forcing his slave to take his place as “Heracles” in difficult and risky situations. Xanthias describes the god as, “the very worst coward on heaven and earth” when noticing that such a divine being could have a humanistic flaw: cowardice. Although Aristotle suggested that the comic hero be average (such as a servant) to strike the audience as ridiculous, Xanthias takes the role instead of Dionysus. The quarrels between him and his master are comical, and show the rise and relative importance of such
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