English 1027F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Sophocles, Peripeteia, Ancient Greece
18 Oct 2016
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A man who believes his actions are a result of his inner self. Discovers evident ability to control outside forces that determine what he thinks and what he does. No narrator drama/theatre: has no mediating consciousness, a multisensory experience, occurs in real time, you have no control over it. Unpredictable, present in the moment of the event. Festival of dionysus: god of grape vines/wine and theatre, theatre was a type of church in a sense (ritualistic, veneration, occurred each spring, grand competition (american idol) Sophocles won 18 times: tragedies were the highest form of drama, literature, veneration. Tragedy: refers to stories that result in a disastrous conclusion for the protagonist. The hero of the tragedy must be noble so that he can fall as a result of some mistaken action, which is led to by his hamartia: tragic flaw. They are first and foremost a plot.
