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Tragedy Notes

Tragedy Notes. Antigone and Othello. Aristotle’s Poetics. Earliest surviving work of dramatic theory Famous for its discussion of tragedy Aristotle didn’t create tragedy but only wrote what he noticed in studying the great tragedies such as those by Sophocles. Catharsis.

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Tragedy Notes

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  1. Tragedy Notes Antigone and Othello

  2. Aristotle’s Poetics • Earliest surviving work of dramatic theory • Famous for its discussion of tragedy • Aristotle didn’t create tragedy but only wrote what he noticed in studying the great tragedies such as those by Sophocles

  3. Catharsis • A purging of emotions, caused by watching great tragedy • Release of tension • Often occurs at moment when hero falls on his face and audience “can finally explode”

  4. To bring about pity and fear… • A totally good man must not pass from happiness to misery.This will make the audience angry that bad things happened to him. They won’t pity him so much as be angry for him. • A bad man must not pass from misery to happiness.This won’t appeal to the audience at all because they won’t want to see evil rewarded. • A bad man cannot pass from happiness to misery.The audience won’t feel sorry for him because they will believe he got what he deserved. • The true tragic hero cannot be too good or too bad, but he must end up in misery.

  5. Tragic Hero • Must be noble or descended from a god • Must make some hamartia (“missing the mark”) – Tragic Error • That brings about perepeteia – reversal of fortune • Experiences a moment of anagnorisis – a recognition, in which he/she realizes what he/she has done

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