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    Aristotelian Tragedy
    Mani Vairapandi
    Aristotelian tragedy
     Components of Tragedy
     Plot
     Character
     Diction
     Song
     Spectacle
     Thought

     Without these, the tragedy could be called
    incomplete.
    Aristotelian Tragedy
     Aristotle begins analyzing
    tragedy from the start of
    the Poetics on Tragedy.
     He defines tragedy as
    imitation of action. An
    action is done by a
    character.
     Usage of language to
    make the actions
    artistic.
     The final actions of the
    character are meant to
    instill fear and pity.
    Character
     The character must be:

     –Good.
     –Fit for role.
     –Realistic.
     –Personality and character
    must remain consistent
    throughout.
     –Must be fitting to the text.
     –And although they are so
    realistic, there must be some part
    of them that makes them seem
    idealistic.

     Even though they are set


    apart from the rest of us that
    makes us look up to them, there
    must be a flaw within their
    character to make them fall.

     These must be present if
    the character is to be tragic.
    Character
     “15. As in the structure of the plot, so too in the
    portraiture of character, the poet should always aim
    either at the necessary or the probable. Thus a
    person of a given character should speak or act in a
    given way, by the rule either of necessity or of
    probability; just as this event should follow that by
    necessary or probable sequence. It is therefore
    evident that the unraveling of the plot, no less than
    the complication, must arise out of the plot itself.”
    (Aristotle XV)

    Catharsis

     Purging of emotion.
     Aristotle believes that fear and pity must arise
    from the reader in order to for the tragedy to be
    a success.
     There are those that debate against Aristotle’s
    length requirement for a good tragedy.

    Catharsis
     Emotional response
    of the reader:
     Actions must be
    between friends
    or those who do
    not care much
    for each other.
     If an enemy were
    to kill an enemy.
    (Isolated cases)
     Within Family.
    Catharsis
     Hans-Georg Gadamer's Truth and Method:
     “What is experienced in such an excess of
    tragic suffering is something truly common.
    The spectator recognizes himself [or herself]
    and his [or her] finiteness in the face of the
    power of fate. What happens to the great
    ones of the earth has exemplary
    significance. . . .To see that "this is how it is"
    is a kind of self-knowledge for the spectator,
    who emerges with new insight from the
    illusions in which he [or she], like everyone
    else, lives.” (132)
    Catharsis in everyday tragedy
     Macbeth (Shakespeare)
     Othello (Shakespeare)

     “Oedipus the King” (Sophocles)


    Works cited.

     "Aristotle Poetics Overview." Hawaii English. N.p., n.d. Web. 3 Feb. 2010.
    <http://www.english.hawaii.edu/criticalink/aristotle/index.html>.

     Butcher, S. H. "Selections from the Poetics of Aristotle." MN State. N.p., 1895. Web. 3 Feb. 2010.
     <http://www.mnstate.edu/gracyk/courses/web%20publishing/AristotlePoeticsEdited.htm>.
      
     Friedman, Norman. "The Tragic Hero." JSTOR. National Council of Teachers of English, May 1958. Web.
    3 Feb. 2010. <http://www.jstor.org/pss/372038>.
      
     Golden, Leon. "Epic, Tragedy, and Catharsis." JSTOR. The University of Chicago Press, Jan. 1976.
    Web. 3 Feb. 2010. <http://www.jstor.org/pss/268520>.
      
     Kitano, Mashiro. "Tragic Catharsis in Poetics." GPWU. Bulletin of Gunma Prefectural Women's
    University, n.d. Web. 3 Feb. 2010. <http://www.gpwu.ac.jp/~kitano/papers/comic.html>.
      
     McManus, Barbara F. "Outline of Aristotle's Theory of Tragedy in the Poetics." CNR. College of New
    Rochelle, Nov. 1999. Web. 3 Feb. 2010. <http://www2.cnr.edu/home/bmcmanus/poetics.html>.
      
     Simpson, David L. "Comedy and Tragedy." Condor Depaul. Depaul University, 1998. Web. 3 Feb. 2010.

    <http://condor.depaul.edu/~dsimpson/tlove/comic-tragic.html>.
      
     "Tragedy." Academic Brooklyn. Brooklyn College, Mar.-Apr. 2009. Web. 3 Feb. 2010.
    <http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/english/melani/cs6/tragedy.html>.
      
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