THT - W3 Flashcards
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Lysistrata (Characters - Comedy/Tragedy?)
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Comedy – do not tend to evolve
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Antagonist (La)
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The Magistrate
- Causing the conflict
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Protagonist (La)
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Lysistrata
- Is targeted by the Antagonist
- Has the goal
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Q
Lysistrata -ch- (La)
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- Common (X not noble)
- Protagonist
- Man characteristics
- Look down on her sex
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Q
Lampito (La)
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- Beautiful
- Powerful
- Scottish speak (not as good as English, something wrong, other, NOTATHENIAN)
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Dialogue (La)
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- Unembelished
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Q
Aristotle Greek Comedy (good)
- Plot
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- Unified, simple, universal
- Imitation of Inferior Action
- Necessary or probable sequence
- Order RE-established in the end
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Q
Aristotle’s Greek Comedy (Good Aristotle Comedy)
- Character
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- Ignoble human beings, the ridiculous / deformed
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Aristotle’s Greek Comedy (Good Aristotle Comedy)
- Thought
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- Possible and pertinent, proof and refutation
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Aristotle’s Greek Comedy (Good Aristotle Comedy)
- Diction
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- Delivery, language, vocabulary
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Aristotle’s Greek Comedy (Good Aristotle Comedy)
- Spectacle
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- Spectacular events = Set fire to the gates of the Akropolis (Gates of the virgin.)
- Reconciliation = women in the end (being an object map)
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Irony (3 types)
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- Dramatic (audience knows, not characters)
- Situational (Conflict expected/happens)
- Verbal (Words used mean something diff. than itended)
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Dramatic irony
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- Audience knows something characters don’t
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- Audience knows something characters don’t
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Dramatic irony
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Situational irony
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- Discrepancy between what is expected to happen and what does
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- Discrepancy between what is expected to happen and what does
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Situational irony
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Verbal irony
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- The words used mean something different than what is intended
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Q
- The words used mean something different than what is intended
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Verbal irony
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Q
Mix of chorus in the end (La)
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- Break the fourth wall
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- Break the fourth wall
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Mix of chorus in the end (La)
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- Literary devices (La)
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- Irony
- Symbolism
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Major Themes (La)
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- Arguments
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Thetrical Conceit-or effect- (La)
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Metaphor
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Major Symbols (La)
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- Lysistrata’s wool
- Clothing, cosmetics and dressing
- 2 weapons : Reproduction
- Chorus (History, wisdom, F/M, OLD men fight, OLD wm fight back)
- Athena & the Acropolis
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Themes / Argument (La)
- Feminine and the masculine
- The domestic/private versus the community/public
- War and violence
- Power and obedience
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Metatheatricality (La)
Talks about other plays (in La - Elements of greek Drama)
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Talks about other plays (in La - Elements of greek Drama)
Metatheatricality (La)
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Peripeteia (in La)
When the men cave - arrival of Spartan ambassador (La - Element of Greek Drama)
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When the men cave - arrival of Spartan ambassador (La - Element of Greek Drama)
Peripeteia (in La)
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Hamartia (in La)
tragic flaw has to be in noble character
â€" (men): They cannot see the effect of loss of war in their
(La - Element of Greek Drama)
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tragic flaw has to be in noble character
â€" (men): They cannot see the effect of loss of war in their
(La - Element of Greek Drama)
Hamartia (in La)
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- Hubris (in La)
The inhability of men to accept the equality or be better beside women. (The magistrate shows that : ‘’’Mbetter than women’’
| (La - Element of Greek Drama)
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The inhability of men to accept the equality or be better beside women. (The magistrate shows that : ‘’’Mbetter than women’’
| (La - Element of Greek Drama)
- Hubris (in La)
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Catharsis (in La)
Men accept to think more logically (in La - Element of Greek Drama)
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Men accept to think more logically (in La - Element of Greek Drama)
Catharsis (in La)
