Aristotle Poetics Dramatic Elements Dramatic Unities.

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Aristotle Poetics Dramatic Elements Dramatic Unities

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Aristotle Poetics

Dramatic ElementsDramatic Unities

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Let there be LIGHT

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Six Elements

PlotCharactersThought, motivationVerbal expression, script Song composition music/choralVisual adornment set/costume

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Plot Plot-a tragedy cannot exist without a plot;

can exist without characters The basic principle, the “heart and soul”,

the structure of the events

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CharactersCharacters defined by context; actionImitates the persons primarily for the sake of

the action; clearly reveals the bent of man’s moral choice

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Thought

Motivation of characters; the ability to state the issues and appropriate points pertaining to a given topic; the passages in which they (characters) try to prove something is or is not so, or state some general principle.

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verbal expression

How do we get rid of the man?

What do you mean?A Script:

conveyance of thought through language

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Song composition

music/choral

the greatest of the sensuous attractions (through language)

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visual adornment

Sets/costume

which has strong emotional effect (least connected with the poetic art)

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PLOTS

Simple Plots: continuous without reversal Complex plots: reversal-recognition: a shift from ignorance to awareness -“peripety” what is being undertaken to the opposite Peripeteia- a reversal of fortune, for better or for worse, for the protagonist. Used to describe a character’s fall in Greek tragedy. 

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Aristotle’s Dramatic Unities

There are two dramatic unities outlined in PoeticsScholars later interpreted Aristotle’s ideas and as rules and added the third.....

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Unity of Time- Aristotle noted that a play’s action usually

occurs in one day (or a little more)

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Unity of Action- Aristotle argued that the plot should reveal

clearly ordered actions and incidents moving towards the plot’s resolution

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Unity of Place-

A play’s action should occur in a single locale.