Introduction
Aristotle was the student of Plato, and Plato was the student of Socrates and Socrates was a student of particularly no one!
His teacher Plato didn’t like Poetics much, but Aristotle was not so close minded.
Aristotle after he tutored Alexander the great, sat down to write a book called Poetics.
orignally it had two parts. One part on Comedy and another on Tragedy, but only Tragedy survived.
He was only doing criticism retrospectively, and not in the sense of seeing the dramas of his contemporaries.
He was definitely a huge follower of Sophocles, you know the guy who wrote Odeius Rex.
In fact Aristotle’s ideas are still considered in modern plays.
The work focuses much more on tragedy and Epic.
TRAGEDY
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Tragedy,” says Aristotle, “is an imitation [mimēsis] of an action that is serious, complete, and of a certain magnitude…through pity and fear effecting the proper purgation [catharsis] of these emotions.”
Rules
- Tragedies must deal with only one story.
- Their difficulties are not minor, and there are rape, murder and so forth.
CATHARSIS:
Purgation, yes, but is it for the audience or the actors, and there is a lot of argument about it just the same.
Anyway Aristotle also said that tragedy has 6 parts:
- plot
- Character
- Diction
- Thought
- Spectacle
- Song( more important than Spectacle)
Good character – lot of problems- Hurrary succesful tragedy
And if a character simply stays good…. in Scene 1, stays good scene 2, stays good scene 45… well no pity, and no fear can take place can it now..
Noble persons misfortune or shall we say , Hamartia… well he is not all bad.. he just tired to do something good for, and then tragically he didn’t.. Tragically, now it makes sense I suppose.
Tragic Plot must have
- Reveral
- Recognization
- Suffering
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So Aristotle was the student of Plato, and Plato was the student of Socrates and Socrates was a student of particularly no one!
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