Week Three Notes
Lecture notes
ARISTOTLE:
- 384-322 BC
-Lived: Stageira, Macedonia
-Was a Greek philosopher
-The dude who came up with somewhat like official rules for stories
-Wrote the book called Poetics
1) What is poetics?
SET OF ADVICE ON WRITING TRAGEDIES TO CONTEMPORARY POETS
What is a plot?
-plot is the arrangement of incidents. The soul of a tragedy.
Beginning:
-the incitive moment
-it must start the cause and effect chain.
Middle:
-climax
-it must be caused by earlier incidents ….
End:
-resolution
-must be caused by preceding events but not lead to other incidents.
-the end should resolve the problem created during the incitive moment.
[ Magnitude—length of a plot ]
6 Elements of Tragedy :
Plot
Character:
It supports the plot
Personal motivations are connected to the cause-effect chain.
He believes that the main character should be rich and famous so that his change can be from good to bad.
In the ideal tragedy, the protagonists will mistakenly bring about his own downfall
This lack of self knowledge is called hamartia.
Diction-> the way it is delivered
Thought->The representation of the rational processes of the characters and of the values and ideas articulated in the play.
Song/Melody->Some parts of the text of the play are conveyed through the singing of the chorus or of other characters
Spectacle->aesthetics of the entire play
Important vocabulary for the week:
Kartharsis
Mimesis
Anagnorisis
Perepeteia
hamartia
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3 act structure→his greatest contribution to the world
1st act: set-up
story begins with a goal-oriented character introduced at a point of crisis.
In the act of trying to get to the goal he has to meet roadblacks produced byt the antagonist
2nd:confrontation
action intensifes
an event forceds the chracter to make his choice
3rd:resolution
level of effort rises to new heights
both plot and character is resolved
main character either achieves or does not achieve his goal.
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