Drama unit - Notes
Drama: a type of literature where a group of characters interact with each other on stage 3 types of drama 1. Tragedy ex. Antigone When a hero goes up against a great force and loses.. (Aristotle definition: imitation of life which is meant to bring out fear and pity in the reader) 2. Comedy 3. Tragicomedy blending of tragedy and comedy in one play ex. Merchant of Venice
3 types of tragedy 1. Revenge ex.
The Spanish Tragedy
2. De Casibus charts rise & fall of powerful person (ex. Julius Caesar,
Macbeth)
3. Domestic shows disintegration of family (O)
Types of Characters 1. Flat same throughout story
2. Dynamic starts off one way and ends up opposite undergo a change
3. Round multidimensional, good traits & bad traits
4. Static background character & supporting role Methods of Characterization 1. Direct author tells you what the character is like
2. Indirect you have to infer what the character is like based on character’s interactions with others
Freytag’s Pyramid 1. Expositionintroduction of characters & setting
2. Rising Actionplot starts to develop
3. Climaxplot comes together
4. Falling actionhow it will resolve
5. Denouement resolution/conclusion
Aristotle Poetics
1st book of literary criticism
1. redefined tragedy
2. 3 unities of drama
● unity of time shouldn’t cover a timespan of more than 24 hours
● unity of place should only have one location
● unity of action all actions depend on each other
Winters tale violates 3 unities!!!
3. tragic hero
● elevated statureposition of power
● can’t be all good/bad had to be round
● tragic flaw (hamartia)characteristic that motivates/drives individual
● reversal of fortune go from going one way to being opposite
● realization acknowledge that what they did was wrong
● Catharsis outpouring of emotion
Types of Conflict 1. Man vs. Self internal
2. Man vs. Man
3. Man vs. Society
4. Man vs. Nature Types of Irony 1. Situational
2. Verbal
3. Dramatic
antigone
● tragic hero is Creon, the king
GOOD THINGS
man of his word
patrioticwanted to do what was best for his country
family man
BAD THINGS
stubborn
arrogant
didn’t take pity
murderer
unwilling to listen ● Creon’s hamartia his pride/hubris
● pg 1584 “you want to talk but never to hear and listen”
● Pg 1590 “old man, you are all archers, and I am your mark.”
● Pg 1577 “though she were my sister’s child or closer in blood than all that my hearth god acknowledges as mine neither she nor her sister should escape the utmost sentence death”
● goes against laws of gods
● Reversal of fortune
family dies
when Hamen tries to go against his father
when he decides a little too late to let Antigone go CLIMAX Antigone’s suicide ● Realization
● “Lead me away, a vain silly man who killed you son, and you, too, lady. I did not mean to, but I did”
● “What doom still waits for me? I have but now taken in my arms my son…” role of gender
● when Ismene tells Antigone she won’t help her because they can’t go against the men in power
● when Creon and Antigone argue and Antigone has her own thoughts
● when Creon told his son that Antigone could be replaced like any other woman ●
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