Aristotles poetics Topic: TRageDy MA III Sem Paper IX Government college Paonta Sahib Distt Sirmour HP Aristotles Definition of TragedyTragedy is an imitation of an action that is serious, complete, and of a certain magnitude in language
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Aristotle’s poeticsTopic: TRageDy MA III Sem Paper IX
Government college Paonta Sahib Distt Sirmour HP<br>
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Aristotles Definition of TragedyTragedy is an imitation of an action that is serious, complete, and of a certain magnitude in language embellished with each kind of artistic ornament, the several kinds being found in separate parts of the play in the form of action, not of narrative through pity and fear effecting the proper purgation of these emoti<br>
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Aristotles Poetics Basic ConceptsComplex plots are better than simple ones
Suffering is to be included in a tragic plot which should end unhappily.
The pity and fear from which the tragedy evokes, should come from the events, not from the mere sight of something on stage.<br>
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Tragedy came to signify a dramatic presentation of high seriousness and noble character which examines the major questions of human existence
why are we here?
how can we know the will of the gods?
what meaning does life have in the face of death?<br>
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In tragedy people are tested by great suffering and must face decisions of ultimate consequence. Some meet the challenge with deeds of despicable cruelty, while others demonstrate their ability to confront and surpass adversity, winning our admiration and proving the greatness of human potential.<br>
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Aristotle five marks of tragedyImitates an action
Arouses pity and fear
Displays the human image as such
Ends in wonder
Is inherently beautiful<br>
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Tragic CatharsisCatharsis is not a technical reference to purgation or purification, but a beautiful metaphor for the peculiar tragic pleasure, the feeling of being washed or cleansed.
I will show you fear in a handful of dust. T. S. Eliot Wasteland
Alfred Hitchcock
Horrible things and painful feelings<br>
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ReversalReversal is a change by which the action veers round its opposite, subject always to our rule of probability or necessity.<br>
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Recognition (anagnorisis)A change from ignorance to knowledge, producing love or hate between the persons destined by the poet for good or bad fortune.<br>
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Recognition (anagnorisis)A change from ignorance to knowledge, producing love or hate between the persons destined by the poet for good or bad fortune.<br>
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A Tragic HeroPity and fear/ pathos
Noble (or aristocratic)
Inevitability
the ability to achieve greatness (but who through a weakness, or tragic flaw in his character, falls into the depths of misery and often to his death)<br>
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0The Weakness of a Great Hero?Character is destiny. (Heraclitus)
A hero is not a perfect person. Why can the audience be deeply moved by an imperfect hero?<br>