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• We are only women, we cannot fight with men.• Impossible things should not be tried at all.• Good lives are made so by discipline.• Money! There is nothing in the world so

demoralizing as money.• There is no happiness where there is no

wisdom.• There is nothing so comfortable as your own

safe skin!• Words are no friends.• Who can say that a man is still alive when his

life’s joy fails? He is a walking dead man.

TRAGEDY

Aristotle

IMITATION OF AN ACTION

• Replicating an original action,

feeling, or item.

• Serious moral implications

• Not limited to one character; an

entire action

A PLAY: THE NECESSARY MEDIUM

• Play = One Day

• People can come together

to experience the same

emotions

PURPOSE

• Catharsis (i.e. the purging of strong emotions or

relieving of emotion tensions, especially through

certain kinds of art)• Watch the play• Feel the emotions (fear, pity, sympathy, etc.)• Purging of emotions

Play = controlled environment• Better together than alone

STAGES OF THE TRAGIC HERO

THE TRAGIC HERO

Better than the average person

Good fortune to Bad Fortune

HAMARTIA

Change that comes or a mistake that the hero

makes.

Change DOES NOT have anything to do with the

god’s or divine will.

Change depends SOLELY on the free will of the

hero.

PERIPETY

The action performed by the tragic hero

accomplishes the OPPOSITE of the action’s intent.

RECOGNITION

The hero must realize that his/her actions have

created their own bad present or future.

Recognition comes by their own reasoning!

Cannot be through means of other people (a letter,

a character telling them, etc.)

PATHOS

Last item for the tragic hero

Destructive or painful act that the character

experiences (e.g. death, stabbing eyes out, etc.)

This final emotion/action is necessary for the hero

to be considered tragic.

WHAT THE TRAGIC HERO IS NOT!

Person from good moral figure to bad moral figure.• No fear or pity is created• Morally repugnant

Wicked person from bad to good fortune• Least tragic of all• Does not evoke sympathy, fear, or pity• No reason for a wicked person to have good fortune if

the goal is to purge oneself of negative emotions.

Wicked person from good fortune to bad fortune• Creates sympathy (good)• Does not create fear or pity (bad)

WHO IS THE TRAGIC HERO?

Directions:• First, decide who the tragic hero of the

play is.• Second, make of list of how the character

fits all four stages of the tragic hero.