ENGL 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Hamartia, Scientific Method, Anagnorisis
14 Mar 2016
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Aristotle on tragic plots: central emotional experience of tragedy is catharsis, catharsis = purgation or purification, the feelings of emotional release or calm the sector feels at the end of a tragedy (kennedy 1243) The dramatist"s aim to produce this effect in the highest degree (abrams 408) Reversal or peripeteia: act iii, scene iii: hamlet decides not to kill king while he is at prayer. Falling action or catastrophe: act iii, scene iv to end: death of polonius, hamlet sent to england, death of ophelia, duel of hamlet and laertes, deaths of gertrude, laertes, claudius, hamlet, (see abrams 296) Structuralism: examines the underlying system of literary conventions and rules of combination that has been mastered by a reader (abrams 381, sees literature has having a syntax or grammatical system. Narrative structure (tzvetan todorov: tragedy caught in process of degeneration trying to move to the process of improvement.
