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Tragedy exam
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- 1According to Aristotle in the poetics, what must the tragic hero/protagonist be?A man of high birth, 'greatness of the soul'. Protagonist cannot be totally good or the audience would be disgusted by the injustice of his destruction in the play's catastrophe.
- 2Define... 1) HAMARTIA 2) PERIPETEIA 3) HUBRIS 4) CATHARSIS 5) ANAGNORISIS1) fatal error of judgement
2) reversal of fortunes (Aristotle believed central to tragedy).
3) Excessive pride= 'divine punishment'.
4) Aristotle deemed this 'purging of emotions' to be the purpose of tragedy, cleansing- form of emotional and psychological release.
5) Recognition of tragic error of judgement. - 3What are some features of Shakespeare's tragedy. (Othello)1) Disregards the unities- range of settings and longer time period.
2) Is Othello over-ambitious when he marries Desdemona? Hubristic when he tries to combine role of soldier and lover?
3) First black hero in English drama, departing from theatrical convention...
4) Shakespeare keeps Iago alive at the end of the play- most tragedy villain dies as part of the process of Catharsis. - 4What did Hegel say about tragedy and the tragic hero?Political and social progress is made by the synthesis of conflicting forces- protagonist embodies this conflict- greatness conflicting evil.
- 5What are the main themes in Othello?1) JEALOUSY (form of tyranny in Othello)
2) PREJUDICE (context- Shakespeare's intention)
3) MASCULINITY AND WOMANHOOD (2 contrasting images between Bianca and Desdemona- Emilia conflates the two).
4) MADNESS/CORRUPTION - 6Quotes that highlight prejudice...1) Racial epithets: "lascivious moor, black ram, barbary horse".
2) "Enter Desdemona, Emilia, Iago and Roderigo"- Othello marginalised.
3) "For I am black, and have not the soft parts of conversation".
4) "More fair than black"- senator - 7Quotes that highlight jealousy...1) "Jealous should will not be answered; a monster begot on itself, born on itself" - Emilia A3.
2) "The moor already changes with my poison"- Iago.
3) "I do suspect the lusty moor hath leaped into my seat"- Iago.
4) "It's my nature's plague, jealousy shapes faults that are not"- Iago.
5) "Green eyed monster doth mock the meat it feeds on"- Iago.
6) "Pour pestilence into his ear"- Iago.
7) "Strangle her in the bed she hath contaminated"- Iago.
8) "Your napkin is too little". - 8Quotes that highlight masculinity and womanhood...1) "She loved me for he dangers i had passed" - Othello A1.
2) "Her youth and maidenhood corrupted by charms"- Brabantio.
3) "Alas she has no speech" -Desdemona.
4) "She has deceived her Father and may thee"- Brabantio.
5) {strikes her} "I have not deserved this".
6) "She was a charmer"- Othello's mother.
7) "Forgive us"- Desdemona.
8) " Honourable murder".
9) "She must die or she'll betray other men"- Othello.
10) "Alabaster" (act 5) Othello committees himself to killing her, statue, legacy, immortality and is in love with the idea of her.
11) "Thieves x3" "Look to your house, your daughter and your bags". -Iago
12) "They are stomachs, we but food"- Emilia.
13) Willow song.
14) "I took you for that cunning whore of Venice".
15) "A fellow almost damned in a fair wife"- Iago. - 9Quotes that highlight deception/change/reputation...1) "Let him do his spite"/ "I'll tear her to pieces". -Othello
2) "My parts, title and perfect soul shall manifest me rightly".
3) "The moor already changes with my poison"-Iago.
4) "The moor is of free and open nature"- Iago.
5) "I would not follow him then!"- Roderigo/ "I follow him to serve my turn upon him"- Iago.
6) "ocular proof"- othello.
7) "Reputation x3"- Cassio.
8) "I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial".
9) Michael Cassio of Florentine vs Othello. - 10What did Arthur Miller say in tragedy and the common man?"Tragedy is the consequence of man's total compulsion to evaluate himself justly"- not just human failing.
Lack of perepetia/anagnorisis can heighten tragedy.
Hope must be present in tragedy- does this glimmer make it more effective?
Common man= tragic hero- tragedy in everyday life/society.
Biff and Willy's tragic flaws are no different than our own- is Biff the tragic hero? - 11Themes in DOAS?1) American Dream
2) Abandonment and betrayal
3) naturalism vs expressionism/ dreams vs reality - 12What are settings/stage direction quotes in DOAS?1) "small fragile home/ air of the dream clings to the place".
2) "A dream rising out of reality".
3) "Silver athletic trophy stands".
4) "Flute plays on, Willy is unaware of it". - 13ACT 1 QUOTES:1) "I have such thoughts, such strange thoughts".
2) "Work a lifetime to pay off a home, you finally own it and there's nobody to live in it".
3) "Measly manner of existence- 50 weeks for 2 week vacation when all you desire is to be outdoors"- Biff
4) "Always got to be ahead of the next fella, that's how you build a future"- Biff.
5) "I hate it, I don't want the girl, and still I take it, and I love it!"- Happy.
6) "I'm the New England man"- Willy.
7) "Walked into a jungle, come out rich"- Willy.
8) "Never fight fair with a stranger, you'll never get out of the jungle that way"- Uncle Ben.
9) "Gotta break your neck to see a star in this yard". - 14ACT 2 QUOTES:1) "He died the death of a salesman, in his green velvet slippers, hundreds of salesmen at his funeral"- Willy.
2) "Only thing you've got in this world is what you can sell, you're a salesman and you don't know that"- Charley.
3) "But it'll go on forever"-Biff/ "Dad is never so happy as when he's looking forward to something"- Happy.
4) "Nothing to me Biff, I was lonely".
5) "I've got to get some seeds, I have nothing in the ground".
6) "Let me go! Burn that dream before something happens"- Biff. - 15More A1 quotes1) "Be liked and you will never want"- Willy.
2) "Biff is a lazy bum/ if there's one thing about Biff, he ain't lazy".
3) "Business is business"- Howard.
4) "You wait kid, we'll get a little place out in the country"/ "you'll do it dear!". - 16Requiem quotes1) "There's more of him on that front stoop than in all the sales he ever made"
2) "I made the last payment on the house today, and there'll be nobody home".
3) "He had the wrong dreams/ Don't say that!".
4) " I'm gonna show you and everyone else that Willy Loman did not die in vain!"- Happy. - 17What is La Belle Dame Sans Merci translated to?Beautiful lady without mercy
- 18What are some features of La Belle Dame Sans Merci?1) ABCB rhyme scheme- trapped- cyclical- foreshadowing.
2) Purgatory- Aristotelian tragic hero- hubris, peripeteia- tries to make wild faery conform.
4) Ballad like, romantic, O WHAT. - 19Quotes from La Belle Dame Sans Merci1) "O WHAT, can ail thee knight at arms alone and palely loitering" (first stanza) "O what can ail thee knight at arms?" (second)
2) "And no birds sing/ and no birds sing".
3) "I see a lily on thy brow, and on thy cheeks a fading rose (enjamb) fast withereth too".
4) "I made a garland for her head"
5) "She took me to her elfrin grot/ she lulled me".
6)" I shut her wild wild eyes with kisses four".
7) "I saw pale kings and princes too, death pale were they all". - 20Lamia part 1 quotes...1) "UPON a time".
2) "Smitten Hermes left his golden throne, bent on amorous theft".
3) "Hermes' painful jealousies".
4) "When from this tomb shall I wake, when in a body fit for life, Ah miserable me!".
5) "Striped like a zebra freckled like a pard".
6) "She seemed at once, penanced lady elf, some demon's mistress or the demon's self".
7) "Her head was a serpent, but ah bitter sweet!"
8) "Nothing but pain and ugliness were left".
9) "Happy Lycius, maid with twisted braid, not one hour hold yet of sciential brain". - 21Lamia part 2 quotes...1) "Love- cinders, ashes dust".
2) "Knowing she could never win his foolish heart from it's mad pompousness".
3) "Lycius led the old man (Apollonius) turning into sweet milk the sophist's spleen".
4) "Wealthy lustre banquet room"
5) "censer fed with myrrh and spiced wood"- funereal.
6) "Upon her aching forehead hung willow and adders tongue".
7) "Shall I see thee made a serpents prey?"- Apollonius.
8)" Frightful scream she vanished, Lycius' arms empty from delight".
9) "It was custom- flowers, torches and marriage song". (Triadic structure).
10) "No pulse was found, in it's marriage robe, the heavy body wound".
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