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Where does tragedy come from?

Where does tragedy come from?. The Greek philosopher Aristotle first defined tragedy in his book Poetics written in about 330 BCE. Aristotle’s definition of tragedy had SIX parts:. Plot Character Thought Diction Spectacle Melody. What Defines Shakespearean Tragedy?. A Tragic Hero

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Where does tragedy come from?

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  1. Where does tragedy come from? • The Greek philosopher Aristotle first defined tragedy in his book Poetics written in about 330 BCE

  2. Aristotle’sdefinition of tragedy had SIX parts: • Plot • Character • Thought • Diction • Spectacle • Melody

  3. What Defines Shakespearean Tragedy? • A Tragic Hero • The Tragic Flaw-Hamartia • Reversal of Fortune • Catharsis • Restoration of Social Order –Denouement

  4. The Tragic Hero • The tragic hero is someone we, as an audience, look up to—someone superior. • The tragic hero is nearly perfect, and we identify with him/her

  5. Tragic Flaw • The hero is nearly perfect- • The hero has one flaw or weakness • We call this the ‘tragic flaw’, ‘fatal flaw’, or hamartia.

  6. Reversal of Fortune • The ‘fatal flaw’ brings the hero down from his/her elevated state. • Renaissance audiences were familiar with the ‘wheel of fortune’ or ‘fickle fate’. • What goes up, must come down.

  7. Catharsis • We get the word ‘catharsis’ from Aristotle’s katharsis. • ‘Catharsis’ is the audience’s purging of emotions through pity and fear. • The spectator is purged as a result of watching the hero fall.

  8. This is why we cry during movies!

  9. Restoration of Social Order • Tragedies include a private and a public element • The play cannot end until society is, once again, at peace.

  10. HAMLET

  11. SOURCE Shakespeare's main source is believed to be an earlier play— now lost— known today as the Ur-Hamlet.

  12. PLOT Hamlet is the son of the late king Hamlet (who dies about two months before the play starts). After his father dies, his brother Claudius becomes king and marries the queen of Denmark, Gertrude. Hamlet dreads that Claudius killed his own brother, King Hamlet, to be the king of Denmark, which terribly angers him. Two officers of the king, Marcellus and Bernardo beckon Hamlet's friend, Horatio, and later Hamlet himself to see the late King Hamlet's ghost appear at midnight who tells him something that creates a desire for revenge.

  13. THEMES IMPOSSIBILITY OF CERTAINTY COMPLEXITY OF ACTION MYSTERY OF DEATH NATION AS A DISEASED BODY REVENGE CLASS ISSUES LOVE

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