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Tragedy Context
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- 1Oedipus Rex (Greek Tragedy)Written by Sophocles
Man kills his father and marries his mother - 2The Oddysey (Greek Tragedy)Written by Homer
Man angers Gods by fighting Trojan War
Goes through trials to reunite with family
Homer believed this could happen to anyone - 3Aristotle's Poetics"Serious, complete, of some magnitude"
"Pity and fear"
"The end is everything"
Needs "pleasurable embellishments" - 4Freytag's Pyramid5 act structure
Climax at end of act 3
Prologue and denouement - 5Othello Nietzche's criticismGreek tragedy helped early audiences appreciate their own lives
- 6Othello A.C. Bradley's criticism"Othello is a man of mystery"
"Passionate but self-controlled" - 7Othello Ania Loomba's criticismOthello "should be used to examine and dismantle the racism and sexism of the leadership of the state"
- 8Othello Marilyn French's criticismDesdemona "accepts her culture's dictum that she must be obedient"
- 9Othello HamletTries to find the person who killed his father but destroys those around him in the process
- 10Othello MacbethHears a prophecy that he will be king
Claims the throne but destroys those around him in the process - 11Othello Dramatic effectRealism is substituted for dramatic effect e.g. Desdemona comes back to life
- 12Othello Gender in Elizabethan societyMen held power in society & relationships
Women were expected to obey
Honour and reputation are pivotal for men
Women were seen as objects
Desdemona breaks conventions by choosing her husband
Bianca breaks conventions of a courtesan, self-respecting and honest - 13DOAS ExpressionismWriter expresses inner emotions of the character e.g. Willy's emotions
- 14DOAS American DreamOriginal: big plot of land for farming, healthy cattle, big family
Recent: successful in business and providing well for a successful family - 15DOAS Everyman figureBased on late 15th century morality play
Showed good, bad, right, wrong
Represents all of mankind with allegorical characters representing abstract ideas - 16DOAS Tragedy of the Common ManMiller says we are all equal to the TH
We should relate to the situation onstage
"The flaw is nothing and need be nothing"
TH doesn't need high status - 17DOAS MarxismClear divide in society
Society is controlled by the powerful
Society has a pecking order - 18DOAS CapitalismPolitical system, encourages "wanting"
Buying fuels economy - 19DOAS ConsumerismOn the rise during the Depression
Attempted to restore faith in industry and manufacturing
Working class paid to produce, middle and upper class buy and consume
Miller is clearly scornful of consumerism - 20Keats Idealist theoryReality is mentally constructed
Conflicting knowledge of supernatural - 21Keats RomanticismPoetry should be spontaneous or emotive
Meaning of life is in nature
Genre or movement of poetry
Imagination and subjectivity - 22Keats Greek mythologyLamia presides in Greek literature
Jealous child-eating demon
Mythology suits the imagination of the Romantic period - 23Keats Anatomy of melancholyMedical textbook on clinical depression
Sees depression as a lens through which to view all human emotion - 24Keats EnlightenmentMovement emphasising logic and reason
Battled against by Romanticism - 25Keats BiographyFather thrown from horse and died of a skull fracture
Mother and brother died from tuberculosis
Wrote many unsuccessful poems
In love with Fanny Brawne but his friends disapproved
Died at age 25 of tuberculosis
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