Sorry for being all cranky here, special thanks to be friend who made me lose the bet. The punishment? A whole hour of Paris Hilton songs in your system. PURE TORTURE!
Anyhow, the most prominent thing I could remember from last weeks lesson was that we all stank up the entire classroom. Thanks to the sewage water that was sprinkled on us in the fire drill. Aristotle was also another unforgettable thing I took back after the knowledge.

WEEK3 REFLECTIONS

SOME OLD GUY CALLED ARISTOTLE
Born: 384 BC
Death: March 7, 322 BC
School/tradition: Gave rise to Aristotelianism and the Peripatetic school
Main interests: Politics, Metaphysics, Science, Logic
Notable ideas: The Golden mean, Reason, Passion
Influences: Plato
Influenced: Almost all of western philosophy and science afterward

Definition of tragedy: it is an imitation of an action that is serious complete and a certain magnitude in language embellished with each kind of artistic ornament, in the form of action not narrative; just with incidents arousing pity and fear, where with to accomplish its kartharsis of such emotions
Greek Tragedy: hero dies in a tragic and unfortunately way.
6 parts of the tragedy: plot
Actions is the most important and not the character, without action there cannot be a tragedy
-Character
- thought
- songs
- spectical(costumes, sets and props)
chain : an event that will happen, one leads to another
tragedy- creates cause and effect chain that clearly reveals what may happen
-arouse not only pity but also fear, because members of the sudience can imahine themseves within the cause and effect chain
unity of action – time
-place
- action
action – tiny hints an clues to keep the story’s continunity
- they are unified and combined as a whole
PLOT IS THE MOST IMPORTANT FEATURE OF TRAGEDY.
PLOT – “soul of the tragedy”
- the arrangement of incident in the story
- Plot is not the storlyline
- it is the structure of the play, the communication of how the audience gets enganged
- 3 act structure( begining. middle. end)
- begining: introduction of the characters
- Middle: climax, it must be caused by the earlier incidents
- End: resolution , must be caused by the preceding events but nit lead to other incidents
the end should resolve all the problems created during the incitive moment
Eposidic: plot that expands over a period of time
no unity no logical like that confuses the audience
a episodic ploy never connects a single cause and effect chain(characters are kinda like an extra)
2 different type if stories
- simple
- complex

simple plot
- one and contineous
- sudden change in fortune occurs vice vasa

Complex plot
-reversal of intention
- the sudden realisation that dawns on the main character
- ultimately te main character has caused the problem himself , and accept the punishment.

Play Structure:

1. Exposition

2. Rising Action

3. Climax

4. Falling Action

5. Denouement/Resolution

Aristotle’s Six Elements of Drama

1. Plot (the incidents or story line)

2. Character (physical, social, psychological, moral–people represented in the play)

3. Thought/Theme (insights into humanity and life

4. Music (all sound)

5. Spectacle (scenery and other visual elements)

6. Diction/language (the dialogue and poetry)

Credibility: terms of events must be believable
a character cannot appear out of the blue and all the problems are solved! BAD STORY!!