Worksheet
Aristotle's Poetics
On this worksheet you will find Short Video Lectures, Quiz and Questions on Aristotle's Poetics |
| Plato and Aristotle |
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View these Short Video Lectures and respond to the questions given below. Give your responses as ‘Comment’ below this blog. Please attempt the quiz also. The link of the quiz is given below embedded videos.
Short Video Lecture - 1
Plato's Main Objections against Poets and Poetry:
Short Video Lecture - 2
Aristotle's reply to Plato's charges
Short Video Lecture - 3
Theory of Mimesis
Short Video Lecture - 4
Definition of Tragedy
Short Video Lecture - 5
Plot is the Soul
Short Video Lecture - 6
Tragic Hero
Quiz on Aristotle's Poetics
Questions to Respond: (Give your responses in Comment below this blog)
1. How far do you agree with Plato’s objection to freedom of expression and artistic liberty enjoyed by creative writers? Name the texts (novels, plays, poems, movies, TV soaps etc which can be rightfully objected and banned with reference to Plato’s objections)
2. With reference to the literary texts you have studied during B.A. programme, write brief note on the texts which followed Aristotelian literary tradition (i.e. his concept of tragedy, catharsis, tragic hero with hamartia etc)
3. With reference to the literary texts you have studied during B.A. programme, write brief note on the texts which did NOT follow Aristotelian literary tradition. (i.e. his concept of tragedy, catharsis, tragic hero with hamartia etc.)
4. Have you studied any tragedies during B.A. programme? Who was/were the tragic protagonist/s in those tragedies? What was their ‘hamartia’?
5. Did the ‘Plot’ of those tragedies follow necessary rules and regulations proposed by Aristotle? (Like chain of cause and effect, principle of probability and necessity, harmonious arrangement of incidents, complete, certain magnitude, unity of action etc)
