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philosophy
ANTIGONE AND CREON APPRECIATED FROM ARISTOTLE 'S THEORY OF POETICS Aristotle defined six main elements of tragedy - plot , character diction , thought , spectacle (effect of the scene , and music or song He considered plot and character as the first two elements or the primary elements . In his Poetics , he expounded on the appropriate mix of these elements using examples from many tragic dramas , particularly those of Sophocles , among other playwrights (Rizzoli , 3-6 Prior to reading Aristotle , Sophocle 's Antigone was like any of the stories I read - the protagonist 's character evolves
as the story is told , climaxing into a point of conflict , toward a logical ending , that was either sad or happy or enlightening . With Aristotle , tragedy acquired a definition with which all that belonged to this class could be so classified on the basis of what made them similar to each other
Aristotle lumped tragedy as imitation , like or with the other arts that imitated nature or the world . What differentiates tragedy from other arts is that it imitates action and life , happiness and misery fortune and misfortune . Tragedy also considers character the second primary quality of tragedy - but it is not character development which is the end or purpose of tragedy (Smith , 28-33
The soul of tragedy is its plot : and Aristotle makes it clear the plot should be complete in itself : beginning , middle , end . And the plot must have a central theme that cements it together (Smith , 36-37 The character or protagonist , acts , and his action is...
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