Tragedy

Question 1

Whens the play set?

Answer 1

One singular day in 1947

Question 2

What type of play is it?

Answer 2

Domestic tragedy
Realist
Greek tragedy

Question 3

Conventions of a greek tragedy in AMS

Answer 3

Tragic hero- Joe
Hamartia- ignorance
Hubris
Anagnorisis
Conflict
Chorus
Catharsis
Aristotle’s unities

Question 4

Aristotles unity of time and place

Answer 4

play is set over 24 hrs in same setting

Question 5

Catharisis

Answer 5

Joe’s suicide

Question 6

Chorus characters

Answer 6

Voice of the community
Jim, Sue , Lydia, Frank

Question 7

Conflict

Answer 7

Ann and Joe

Question 8

Anagnorisis

Answer 8

Revelation of true circumstances
Larrys letter

Question 9

Hubris

Answer 9

Excessive pride
Joe has acheived AD

Question 10

Hamartia

Answer 10

Tragic heroes fatal flaw
Pride (hubris)

Question 11

How is AMS a modern domestic tragedy?

Answer 11

Tragedy where the principal actors are middle class everyman individuals

Question 12

Peripeteia

Answer 12

sudden reversal

‘he hasn’t been laid up in fifteen years’

‘your brothers alive, darling, because if he’s dead, your father killed him’