TRAGIC THEORY

Question 1

Aristotle’s tragic hero

Answer 1

Basically good but with some evil in them

Question 2

Why does a tragic hero need to be neither wholly good nor wholly bad?

Answer 2

So we as an audience are neither disgusted by the injustice of their fall, or rejoice at it

Question 3

What are the two meanings of catharsis?

Answer 3

1. Outlet of strong emotions

2. Teaches us the correct response to suffering- proportions what is worth crying about

Question 4

Aristotle’s three main requirements of the timing of tragedies

Answer 4

Unity of space, action and time

Question 5

Unity of space, action and time

Answer 5

Everything has to happen in a single day- this means that the intensity of the tragedy isn’t broken

Question 6

Unity of space, action and time

Answer 6

Everything has to happen in a single day- this means that the intensity of the tragedy isn’t broken

Question 7

Hegel’s ideas about tragedy

Answer 7

Tragedy is a result of inevitable conflicts of incompatible moral principles
The deaths of characters, largely, are in good cause