7 October, 2022
Hello friends, Here I am writing a blog on Aristotle's Poetics. Which is assigned by Dilip Barad sir.
Aristotle's Poetics
∆ What is your understanding about Aristotle's poetics ?
→ Plato was the most famous literary critic before Aristotle. Aristotle was the great decipal of plato and according to Aristotle poetry was not only pleasant but also useful for man and Society.
According to Plato, poetry imitates only superficial appearance like a painter. But Aristotle behind that poetry not only imitates the external but also internal emotions.
Plato condemned poetry on moral, intellectual and emotional grounds but Aristotle justifies poetry on moral, intellectual and emotional grounds.
Plato says that art being the imitation of the actual is removed from truth but Plato fails to understand that art also give some thing more which is absent in the actual.
Thus according to Aristotle poetry as a medium of imitation that seeks to represent or duplicate life through character, emotion or action.
He also defines 'imitation is one instinct of our nature.' He considers comedy is an imitation of characters of a lower type, tragedy is an imitation of an action that is serious, complete and of a certain magnitude.
∆ Which reference to the literary text you have studied during B.A programme, writer brief note on the texts which followed Aristotlian literally tradition.
→ "Old Man And The Sea" I have studied during B.A. Which followed Aristotlian literally tradition.
Hamartia : Santiago also suffers from a hamartia which is his pride that presses him to "go far out" into the sea.
Catharsis : Santiago's poverty, solitude and downfall excite feelings of pity in us. We fear because we recognize similar possibilities in us. However, Santiago's belief, "A man can be destroyed but not defeated" gives us relief.
∆ With reference to the literary text you have studied during B.A programme, write brief not on the text which did not follow Aristotlian literary tradition.
→ I studied in B.A programme, Pride and Prejudice is not follow Aristotelian literary tradition, because Pride and Prejudice is not a tragic novel, as it ends with the protagonist's wedding to a man she loves.
∆ Have you studied any tragedies during B.A. programme? Who was/were the tragic protagonist/s in those tragedies? What was their ‘hamartia’?
→ Yes, I studied in B.A programme, the play Othello is very tragic, Othello is a most famous example of hamartia. He killed his wife and without knowing everything that is his error for his downfall.
Thank you...
