Saturday, January 22, 2011

Aristotle's Teachings

I have had to read, and re read this selection of literature to understand it.  The components of a tragedy are as follows;  what can be seen (spectacle),  the melody and language, how the piece flows together and is arranged. Tragedy is the mocking of people and emotions and the actor must have the qualities that match the character and thought.  The plot is where this imitation takes place.  The plot is all the events combined.  So all in all there are 6 parts; Plot, Character, Language, Thought , Spectacle and Melody.  I hope I understood these parts right,  I wish this was written in my kind of English.  I like how explained the language and melody as the media.   You can find all of these elements every great literature, they are the staples of basic literature. This learners guide to a tragedy, should be read by every teacher who teaches a literature class.  It explains everything thoroughly.  Since it was written in the greatest time of literature, it is of course going to be the most legitimate explanation.  Maybe this entry didn't put it the most basically but Aristotle was a true man of old school literature writing.  The Shakespeare writing is the most classic, lovely way to write anything, even teaching the parts of a tragedy.

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