Drama (Comedy/Tragedy)

Question 1

Anagnorisis

Answer 1

main character/hero or heroine recognize their tragic web of fate

Question 2

Hamartia

Answer 2

“a shot missing the bull’s eye” / a mistake (often a simple one) that leads the main character to a catastrophe

Question 3

Hubris

Answer 3

the ‘sin’ of the tragic hero

Question 4

Nemesis

Answer 4

punishment or payback the tragic hero receives due to his/her Hubris

Question 5

Peripateia

Answer 5

PLOT change - hero’s reversal of fortune

Question 6

HEGEL’S THEORY OF TRAGEDY

Answer 6

Tragedy involves two values or two rights conflict and are fatally at odds with one another.

E.g. In Antigone, a Greek tragedy, the main character is conflicted between her public duties and her familial and religious duties

Question 7

REVENGE TRAGEDY

Answer 7

Main character is then conflicted between either suffering through without seeking revenge, or deciding to judge the wrongdoer by paying back.

Question 8

Denouement

Answer 8

resolution after the climax (of a play or novel)