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Essay #1 Rules and Requirements: CBE Fall 2019

Consider this a checklist. Make sure you have done each item correctly.

  • You should be following your outline, which you have already passed in and I have graded. THE ESSAY IS FIVE PARAGRAPHS LONG, NO MORE, NO LESS. Paragraphs should be in the six to eight sentence range in length. 1300-1400 words
  • Match Point is in italics. For all full-published works, video or text, titles are in italics. Parts of a larger work, a chapter in a book, are in quotes.
  • You should write a draft of this essay first. Proofread it. Grammar counts! Ask the librarians how to use the free database - Grammarly. Lastly, and I highly recommend this, use text to speech on a computer or download an app that does that. LISTEN TO YOUR SENTENCES FOR ANY AWKWARD SOUNDING WORDS OR PHRASES. USE YOUR EARS AS WELL AS YOUR EYES TO PROOFREAD YOUR ESSAY.
  • IF YOUR ESSAY HAS ANY SENTENCE FRAGMENTS, CAPITALIZATION ERRORS OR RUN-ON SENTENCE, I WILL NOT GRADE IT AND SEND IT BACK TO YOU FOR REVISION!!!!
  • After proofreading your essay in your rough draft, then put it into APA final copy form. The librarians will help you with this. Plus, there are templates at our library’s website you can use that are very helpful and websites online, too. APA final copy form is part of your grade; it is silly losing points for mistakes in using it. IF YOUR ESSAY IS NOT IN PERFECT APA FINAL COPY FORM, THIS INCLUDES THE REFERENCES PAG, I WILL NOT GRADE IT AND SEND IT BACK TO YOU FOR REVISION!!!!
  • You must incorporate TWO quotes with correct in text citations from the film into your essay, which you should have already. You must have a signal phrase before each quote. You must list one source on a References page. – the film itself. If you go to this site - https://www.imdb.com - and search for the movie, you will see all the important data. If there are multiple names for any of the items in the citation, just use the first one. The file How to Cite a Film in APA shows you how to do this. See the link on citations. IF YOUR ESSAY DOES NOT HAVE TWO QUOTES CORRECTLY DONE, I WILL NOT GRADE IT AND SEND IT BACK TO YOU FOR REVISION!!!!
  • Also, if you are unsure about signal phrases How to Cite a Film in APA shows you how to connect quotes to your text and how to cite them in the text. Make sure this is done correctly; it is part of your grade. See assignment at the Match Point study questions for examples of signal phrases.
  • Use WORD ONLY for this essay, NO PAGES, OR PDF FILES!

Introduction:

  • Place the thesis from your essay last in the introduction. Prior to that try to interest your reader in the topic in any way you wish. The pronouns “I,” “We” and “You” should not appear ANYWHERE in this essay.

Body Paragraphs:

  • Place topic sentences first.
  • Make sure you are supporting your ideas with direct references to the movie itself: what characters do or say. Your two quotes should help with this
  • Paragraphs should be in the six to eight sentence range in length.


Conclusion.

  • Begin with a concluding statement, which is your thesis essentially, expressed differently
  • Please do not just summarize, its so boring
  • Try to end in an interesting way.



Use the help of the outline123421final.pdf to help you to do the the essay.

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Running Head: ELEMENTS OF TRAGEDY Elements of Tragedy Samit Hassan Lynn University 26/09/19 !1 Running Head: ELEMENTS OF TRAGEDY THESIS: Match Point uses Aristotle’s theories of tragedy by focusing on the hero’s life which is dominated by the flaw of selfishness that later leads to his downfall. I. Topic sentence: Aristotle’s theory is used in Match Point movie where Chris Wilton is the hero of the story as seen through his success in personal associations, sport and business career. A. Main detail: The hero’s determination changes his personal life and sport career. i. He succeeds in his attempt to go from poverty to fame ii. He also manages to become a tennis coach in London where he meets Tom B Main Detail: The hero also manages to establish his business career through his connections. i. Chris paves through the business world and becomes an executive in the Hewett’s company. ii. He manages to marry a wealthy and powerful woman who makes his business associations even stronger. II. Topic sentence: Aristotle’s theory of flaw is clearly portrayed in the movie Match Point where Chris’ acts of selfishness. A Main detail: Chris develops selfishness for wealth and that determines how he treats others !2 Running Head: ELEMENTS OF TRAGEDY i. !3 He marries Chloe due to the business connections that her family presents. ii. He also wants to keep the affair with Nola private so that it does not affect his position at the company. B Main detail: He is selfish with his love life by telling lies that would only benefit him. i. He falls in love with another woman without minding the feelings of Tom and Chloe ii. When everything unfolds, he kills Nola for trying to expose his secrets as he cannot risk losing the trust of the Hewett family. III. Topic sentence: Aristotle’s element of flaw is connected to the kind of downfall that befalls the hero in the movie of Match Point. A. The Main detail: Chris losses his loyalty and love he had at the beginning due to selfishness. i. His romantic engagements with Nola make him betray the Hewett family and he now feels guilty for working against their backs. ii. To avoid the consequences of his actions, Chris gets rid of a woman he once loved all for the reason of maintaining his social class that comes with Chloe and her family. B. Main detail: Another aspect of downfall is Chris’ guilt and lack of peace. Running Head: ELEMENTS OF TRAGEDY i. The continuous cheating and distancing himself from Chloe brings suspicions, and he does not receive the same love as he did at the beginning of the film. Chloe and Tom can deny him the opportunities as they suspect his integrity. ii. !4 Chris cannot bear the pressure and ends up committing two murders that put him on the wrong side of the law. He lives in constant fear that the case might open again and link him to these murders in the event of new evidence. Concluding Statement Conclusion: Match Point addresses the elements displayed in the Aristotle concept of tragic through the hero’s flaws and downfall, which is a more imitation of reality as the audience relate more. Running head: A REVIEW OF THE FILM MATCH POINT 1 A Review of the Film Match Point Samit Hassan Lynn University 07/09/19 A REVIEW OF THE FILM MATCH POINT !2 Questions on Hero: In Match Point, the fact that Chris Wilton is in world-class tennis competing against the best players in the world; this does not mean that he has become a sports hero. Instead, how he plays the game and wins is what makes Chris a hero. Still, in the case of an athlete, he does not become a hero if at all there are no altruistic acts of heroism that portray risk or sacrifice. Further, as Chris enters the upper-class society, I think he tries to adapt to the status of Tom's wealthy family despite being from a poor background. The element of poverty is evident in Chris’s previous apartment, which looks old-fashioned; unlike the flashy house, he moves into with his wife, Chloe. He even starts reading classic works for fun. So far, I believe that his values are materialistic; hence, he is not sincere in his quest for pursuing Chloe. With the success of his plans, Chris manages to get a high position in Chloe’s father’s business. However, I do not believe that his achievements are a result of having excellent business skills. Instead, his success is heroic as a result of knowing influential people who boost his growth. Questions on the Flaw [Hamartia]: Based on Chris’s personality, his flaws make him a tragic hero. For instance, I can say that his love for Chloe is not genuine due to his greed and selfish personality. From the beginning, I believe that the very moment he encountered his wealthy friend, Tom; he knew his life would be transformed by engaging Chloe. This is evident when Chris says, “I think it is important to be lucky in anything” (Aronson, Wiley, & Darwin, 2005). Therefore, his encounter with Chloe is a game of trying his luck in getting wealthy. I would further say that Chris selfishness makes him pursue Nola well knowing that this might jeopardize his marriage. A REVIEW OF THE FILM MATCH POINT !3 Questions on the hero’s downfall [Peripeteia]: Further, when I reflect on the events that take place in Chris’s life, in truth, he has a downfall because, in the beginning, he has a genuine and humble lifestyle. However, when he gets involved with Chloe's family, events turn out tragic for him. Due to his flaws, this leads Chris to lust for a woman, Nola, who he enjoys being intimate with. This can be justified when Chris tells Nola, “Did anyone ever tell you, you have very sensual lips” (Aronson, Wiley, & Darwin, 2005). His flaw further influences him to want his wife because of her wealth. His actions tend to worsen the events in his life since, at some point; he even commits murder. Questions on the Recognition [Anagnorisis]: Considering that the tragic events tend to worsen in the film, Chris does not confess to the police or his wife about the murder he commits. Instead, he recognizes his flaws by admitting to ghostly figures that approach him in his sleep. Still, there is recognition in Chris's face when he realizes that Nola is pregnant, and he has no idea of how to handle the situation. Chris seems frustrated where he ends up shouting to Nola, saying, Nola! Calm down! Calm the fuck down” after arguing with Nola that she should terminate the pregnancy (Aronson, Wiley, & Darwin, 2005). Further, towards the end of the film, when Chris later meets Nola’s baby, he realizes that this would have adverse consequences on his marriage. Questions on Catharsis: Finally, as a viewer, the tragic events that Chris goes through make me pity him because his actions make him blow away all the good things he had in life. Although all through the A REVIEW OF THE FILM MATCH POINT tragic events Chris manages to suppress his feelings of guilt, this instead intensifies my pity on him because he failed to recognize that his actions would lead to his downfall. !4 A REVIEW OF THE FILM MATCH POINT Reference Aronson, L., & Wiley, G., & Darwin, L., (2005). Match Point. [Film]. British Broadcasting Corporation Films. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wISRAOb6xm0 !5 Aristotle’s Theory of Tragedy Who was Aristotle? Born: c. 384 BCE in Stagira, Macedonia. Died: c. 322 BCE He was an ancient Greek philosopher whose work has been extremely important to the development of both western philosophy and western theology [belief and reason]. Very little of what we have appears to have been published by Aristotle himself. Instead, we have notes from his school much of which were created by his students during the time Aristotle taught. Aristotle himself wrote a few works intended for publication, but we only have fragments of these. His work that we will study is his Poetics, in which Aristotle explains the structure and feeling of tragedy. Aristotle’s ideas on tragedy: The Poetics 335 BC While it is believed that Aristotle's Poetics comprised two books – one on comedy and one on tragedy – only the portion that focuses on tragedy has survived. The characters in a tragedy are merely a means of driving the story; the plot, not the characters, is the chief focus of tragedy. In a sense Aristotle was not into psychology. What you did made you who you are. Comedy, for Aristotle, is a dramatic imitation of men worse than average; whereas tragedy imitates men slightly better than average. The Ancient Greek View of the Universe Tom Driver “The achievement of the Greek thinkers was that they discovered new ways to see the constants that lie within life’s apparently random change. What is given immediately to our experience is variety and mutation, and this produces unbearable anxiety unless some pattern of consistency can be found within it. “The peoples of the eastern Mediterranean, who cradled our civilization, sought to transcend the flux through the elaboration of various myths and rituals. ” The Greeks did also, and it became their privilege eventually to transmute the myths and rituals into philosophy and literature of such universal appeal that time has not rendered them obsolete. “The Greeks fought against time and won. They did it, strangely, by shutting out the future. The future is the enemy of timelessness, as the past, which is fixed, and the present, which is ineffable, is not.” Driver, Tom. (1990). Aristotle’s Definition of Tragedy from the Poetics [two translations] “A tragedy, then, is the imitation of an action [a drama, play or film] that is serious [no comedy] and also, as having magnitude [universal], complete in itself; in language with pleasurable accessories, each kind brought in separately in the parts of the work; in a dramatic, not in a narrative form; with incidents arousing pity and fear [in the audience], wherewith to accomplish its catharsis of such emotions.” “Tragedy, then, is an imitation of an action of high importance, complete and of some amplitude; in language enhanced by distinct and varying beauties; acted not narrated; by means of pity and fear effectuating its purgation of these emotions.” Source: (Paredes, 2014, page 24) Breaking Down Aristotle’s Concept of Tragedy Source of quotes: Tragedy: The Basics. (2004) Tragedy is a serious action [drama, no comedy]; it must be an"imitation" of real life: mimesis. Why? Because if it is an imitation of real life, the audience will connect to the drama. They will be able to relate their own lives to the lives of the fictional characters. This will “Aristotle asserts that the artist does not just copy the shifting appearances of the world, but rather imitates or represents Reality itself, and gives form and meaning to that Reality.” (As cited in Tragedy: The Basics, 2004). The drama must reveal universal themes of ontological importance [the nature of being, of being alive and existence]. This is why the Greek tragedies are still done today. We still can relate to the issues in tragedy 2,000 years after Aristotle In so doing, the artist gives shape to the universal, not the accidental. Poetry, Aristotle says, is "a more philosophical and serious business than history; for poetry speaks more of universals, history of particulars. [As cited in Tragedy: The Basics. 2004) Aristotle said that tragedy should focus on the life of one person: the hero Aristotle contests that the tragic hero has to be a man "who is eminently good and just, whose misfortune is brought about not by vice or depravity, but by some error or frailty. He is not making the hero entirely good in which he can do no wrong but misfortune.” Note the hero is not too good or too evil. Why? If too evil, the audience will reject the hero as simply a villain. If the hero is too perfect, the sadness the audience will feel for the hero at the end of the tragedy could be almost unbearable. The Hero cont. Aristotle suggests that a hero of a tragedy must evoke in the audience a sense of pity or fear, saying, “the change of fortune presented must be the spectacle of a virtuous man brought from prosperity to adversity." Aristotle stresses that the emotion of pity stems NOT from a person becoming better but when a person receives undeserved misfortune. We as the audience feel sorry or pity for the hero. Fear is felt because when the misfortune befalls a man or a woman like us, it means that it could happen to us, too. This is why Aristotle points out the simple fact that the change of fortune should be not from bad to good, but, reversely, from good to bad.” Reeves, Charles, 1952. Pg. 172-188. The Hero’s Flaw Aristotle also establishes that the hero has to be “virtuous” that is to say he has to be "a morally blameless man. The Hero’s flaw is what will bring him not success, but death by the end of the work.” Butcher, S.H. (2008). pp. 45-47. The hero’s flaw- in Greek…hamartia [ha-mar-tee-a]. In Greek tragedy, what leads to the hero’s downfall and tragedy is an aspect of his or her own personality that causes the hero to suffer. In that sense the hero creates his or her downfall rather than being the victim of something terrible. The hero might attempt to achieve a certain goal, but by making an error in judgment the hero instead achieves the opposite result with disastrous consequences. Aristotle would say that these self-destructive actions reveal the hero’s flaw – what went wrong in his or her own thinking or psychology. In Aristotle’s world the lives of people fit into the order of the universe that was governed by the gods and fate. Fate determined our paths through life; sometimes fate is good, but sometimes not. How we deal with fate in the Greek view is what determines our lives. Fate is not kind to the hero; but what causes his suffering is how he or she deals with her fate. Accept it, or fight it! The Downfall of the Hero - Tragedy As a result of his or her flaw, the tragic hero undergoes terrible circumstances during the course of the drama. Once great and noble and happy and loved, the hero experiences a decline or reversal of fortune in life. Things go badly. We would say the hero’s life has gone downhill. Aristotle called this “peripeteia” [pe-ree-pe-tay-a]. In ancient Greek tragedy, somehow the tragic hero has violated the order of things or the way the world should be. In the case of the classic Greek tragedy, Oedipus the King, the hero, learns that through a twist of fate, he wound up murdering his father and marrying his mother. This is the hero’s downfall, the reversal of the good fortune of his or her life. His flaw is excessive pride, or hubris, as Aristotle called it. Oedipus cannot accept his fate. As a result the once great and wise king becomes paranoid and accuses everyone of treachery by trying to steal his kingdom. This begins his downfall, which only becomes worse and eventually he blinds himself out of guilt. The final element of tragedy according Aristotle is called “anagnorisis” [anna-nor-ee-sis]. Anagnorisis is a moment in a play or other work when the tragic hero makes a critical discovery. The realization is that the tragic hero is responsible for his or own downfall. Anagnorisis originally meant recognition in its Greek context. It was the hero's sudden awareness of a real situation, the tragedy that he or she has caused.” To make things even worse for the tragic hero this moment of critical discovery often happens in public and results in a confession. Catharsis: a word used now on modern psychotherapy has to do with the audience and not the characters in the tragedy! This word originates from the Greek katharsis meaning "purification" or “cleansing", and it refers to the purification and purging of emotions, especially pity and fear, that the audience feels at the end of the drama. We all know this feeling. At the end of a sad, tragic movie, we are sometimes left in tears. After the movie is over, we feel relief. After all it is only a movie - a made up story. It is why we enjoy sad movies or plays. We purge the emotions, digest them and then go on to our normal lives having learned from and enjoyed the experience of tragedy. [Remember catharsis is felt by the audience, not the hero] Summary of Aristotle’s theory of tragedy Tragedy is an imitation of real life with universal meaning to all and involves a hero who has a flaw that leads to his or her downfall that ends in the hero’s recognition. The result of witnessing the tragedy is catharsis, a release of pity and fear for the hero by the audience. Why Tragedy What is tragic? What is a tragedy? Do we all experience tragedy? • Tragic? We use the word tragic in many different ways. Are these tragic? • And old person dies in Boca? • An infant dies in Boca? • I get hit by a bus crossing the street? • A massive hurricane kills thousands? • Tragedy is an art form to communicate the suffering and sadness of experiences in life. These films you may know. They are tragedies. • Titanic • Marley and Me • Moonlight • La La Land • Me Before You • The Edge of Seventeen • Manchester By the Sea Why Tragedy • We study tragedy as an art form in this course. Throughout history dramatic tragedy has served two purposes: • 1. To teach what is like to experience the worst things of life • 2. To delight - to move the audience emotionally • 3. Consider Titanic – teach and delight? • How do you create a tragic play or fil: tragedy takes about two hours to tell story • An earthquake….how do you tell the story...you need to focus on the lives of one or two individuals to show the effects of tragedy overall. • Tragedy is a form to express human suffering caused by humans. In our course, we study the classic theories of tragedy and how these theories of tragedy apply to... • Classical Greek tragedies • Readings from ancient times to modern • Figures from modern popular culture
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Aristotle’s Theory of Tragedy in Match Point Movie
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ARISTOTLE'S THEORY OF TRAGEDY IN MATCH POINT
Aristotle’s Theory of Tragedy in Match Point Movie
Match Point is a British film that was produced; it expresses the theme of lust and greed,
especially by the main character. The Film applies Aristotle's theory of tragedy to communicate
its ideas to the audience. A disaster is usually a dramatic component that is expressed in most of
the films or plays. It is defined as the genre of the story or movie where the great person is
brought down his or her own flaw. The Match Point, the Film, which is directed by Woody
Allen, indicates the characters who end in a tragedy and the events that occur in the Film make it
considered a tragedy. Indeed, the Film portrays three out of categories of tragedy. Indeed, the
Match Point is deemed to be tragic because it represents a character who is suffering, a tragic
flaw which is brought by fate and the downfall of the hero, which is brought a tragic flaw.
MatchPoint uses Aristotle's theories of tragedy by focusing on the hero's life, which is dominated
by the flaw of selfishness that later leads to his downfall.
Aristotle's theory is used in the Match Point movie, where Chris Wilton is the hero of the
story, as seen through his success in personal associations, sport, and business career. An Irish
pro tennis player Chris Wilton has recently retired from a tennis player moves from Ireland and
settles in Britain. Chris, who is brought up from the humble background with traditional values,
is determined to change in his personal life as well as his sports career. He struggles to change
his course of life and probably becoming financially stable. His determination bears fruit when
he first manages to get his first job as a tennis coach at an Upscale Tennis Club in London.
While working as an instructor at the tennis climb, Chris becomes a friend Tom Hewett who is a
child from a wealthy family in England. They both become friends after they found that they
shared an interest in opera. Later, Tom invites Chris at his home, where he attracts Toms Sister
Chloe. More afterward, Chris and Chloe begin to date. During the family gathering, Chris meets

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ARISTOTLE'S THEORY OF TRAGEDY IN MATCH POINT
Tom fiancée Nola Rice and he intimately attracted by her. At this time, Tom's mother, Eleanor,
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