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This Paper format with need to be double-spaced, times new roman 12 font and in MLA. It should be no more then 5 pages 4 the Maximum. This paper should have two parts to it.
Part ONE: write a short paper in which they identify one example of a modern work (film, novel, short story, etc.) that meets Aristotle’s criteria of a “perfect tragedy". Describe how this work meets, or does not meet, each criteria. You MUST answer the same questions you answered for Aias and Oedipus Rex as you write your paper - however, you MUST also write paragraphs. Do NOT just answer the questions, but use the questions as a guide to help you write a good paper.
PART TWO: write the following essay in addition to the short paper above: Some scholars argue that Aristotle thinks Oedipus Rex is the perfect tragedy. Other scholars deny that Aristotle thinks Oedipus Rex is "perfect."
- Using Aristotle’s criteria for the perfect tragedy, analyze the plot of Oedipus Rex and prove it meets his criteria or not. You MUST apply the terminology of Aritstotle in your response and use the questions that you answered about Oedipus Rex as your guide to make sure you analyze the plot fully
Oedipus Rex Questions:
1. Identify the hero
2. Does the hero start the play in “good fortune” (i.e. is his life going well in the beginning of the tragedy?)
3. Do the hero and all other characters end the play in “bad fortune” (i.e. is everyone
less happy in the end)
4.Identify the tragic flaw of the hero (if any) and quote a passage that shows this flaw.
5. Does this tragedy evoke a catharsis in you of pity AND fear? That is, do you feel relieved from pity and fear in the end?
6. Do you think most people would feel a catharsis of pity and fear from this tragedy?
7. Identify the tragic action (if any) and quote the passage in which this action takes place.
8.If there is a tragic action, is the description of it disgusting or excessively graphic?
9. If there is a tragic action, cite the passage that is the recognition scene.
10.If there is no tragic action, was the tragic action avoided or averted by recognition of a loved one? Quote the passage in which the tragic action is avoided because of some kind of recognition of a loved one (For example, the hero avoids murdering someone because he realizes the person he is about to murder is his son)
11.Identify the turning point (if any) and quote the passage.
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Aristole's Perfect Tragedy
This study paper uses Aristotle criteria of a perfect tragedy to show how heroes and
heroine are as a matter of fact tragic hero and heroine and how their decision led to their
downfall.
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Riders to the sea
This is a good example of a modern tragic story. The short story narrates about calamities
caused by the sea on a fishermen family in an island west of Ireland. As a modern story, it deals
with the predicament and sorrows of the common man. The heroin in this story is a woman
called Maurya who is the head of the fishermen family. The difference between this modern day
tragedy story and that of the Greek tragedy story is that in the modern tragedy story the story is
universal and easy to relate, but the Greek tragedy story was associated only with a particular
royal family or a particular man. Riders to the sea are a story that every family living the Aran
Island where it was set can relate to because the characters in the story are helpless just like the
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main character Maurya. Maurya is a victim of bad luck because she has lost all the males in her
family to the sea something most families in the island can relate with. Maurya represents every
woman and can be found in another context in different countries which makes the play a global
significance.
A good tragedy story according to Aristotle is one that is able to evoke fear and pity
among the viewers. In Aristotle perception, a hero should be better than everyone else, superior
to average man in some areas. However, this perception is contrasted in the Riders to the Sea
story whereby the main character is as an ordinary person just like everyone else. Maurya is
disappointed every time one of her sons is in the sea, and a report reaches her of her son’s
untimely death at sea. As a matter of fact in the modern day tragedy story, the hero at some point
resigns to fate claiming that every man will die at some point. The death of the male members at
sea causes untold suffering to Maurya and her remaining two daughters.
Reading the tragedy story, I felt afraid of the sea and pity to Maurya and her daughters
for their losses. I believe most people would also feel catharsis of pity and fear after reading the
tragedy story. The kind of genre described is a horror because the sea is portrayed as a monster
that kills any male who dares to make sail. One of the tragedies that occur in the story is that of
Bartley his mother Maurya pleads with him not to go to the sea and as he leaves she sees a ghost
of his brother behind him. We are told it is not long before the news of last son body being
washed ashore reaches her and heartbroken she cries out that they are together now (Synge &
Oliver Wendell Holmes Collection 7). In this tragic, the heroine suffers the tragedy of losing all
her sons to the sea. The tragic that stir the audience emotions the most is th...
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