Aristotle

 

1) In the 18th and 19th centuries there were many people felt that novel reading is waste of time. There were many reasons behind this belief. One of them was Plato's influence who believed that, "LITERATURE IS AN IMITATION OF AN IMITATION". The perfect example is the hollywood film 'Harry Pottet'. There is a magical world which is shown by direct and it is his imitation. The movie is drive us away from reality. When we look it from the Plato's point of view we feel that aesthetic pleasure but it's not reality. So it has morally improper.

2) Othello is the best example which followed the Aristotlelian literary tradition. The tragedy evoked pity and terror in the audience; it was catharsis, or washing clean of the soul. Othello is about as near as Shakespeare gets to classical tragedy.

3) According to Aristotle the tragic hero is defined by five main characteristics,
* tragic hero is born in nobility
* tragic hero possesses hamartia which leads to his downfall.
* hero experiences peripetria.
* action of tragic hero result in an increased self awareness and knowledge.
* audience must feel pity sympathy or fear for the character.
Captain Ahab was not born in nobility. He is not possesses increased self awareness. Instead his hamartia leads to his death. In the end Ahab only qualifies as a tragic hero under one or two of Aristotle's characteristics. So we can say that this is not follow the Aristotlelian theory.

4) I studied 'All my sons'. Joe Keller is the protagonist of the play. His sense of guilt drives him to suicide and before taking his life, he refers to his son Larry's statement that he was ending his life to make amends for the twenty-one pilots,who met their end by using the cracked cylinder heads dispatched from the factory of Joe Keller. All my son's is the conflict between family loyalities and the social responsibilities.

5) The plot is fairly unified,focusing on Othello and his fate,and dealing with other people and events only in so far as they are relevant to his focus. Aristotle proposed the tragic unities of place,time and action. A morden interpretation would say that Ohello's tragic flaw was that he had internalized,that is taken into himself, the prejudices of those who surrounded him.

Coledrige

Thinking activity:- Coleridge's Biographia Literaria

 

The Biographia Literaria is a critical work by Samuel Taylor Coleridge which is contained in 24 chapter. In this critical disquisition,Coleridge concerns himself not only with the practice of criticism but also with its theory. In the chapter of XIV of Biographia Literaria,Coleridge's view on nature and function of poetry is discussed in Philosophical term. The difference between prose and poem is discussed by Coleridge and the difference between poetry and poem is discussed by philosopher.

• Difference between Poem and Prose

 If we see the difference between poem and prose we can not find a huge difference in them. It very hard to find the clear cut difference and dissimilarities in them. The main difference between these two is related with the object. The language of poem is sometimes highly ornamental and also we find complexity of word. While in the Prose, the language  is very straight forward and we do not find a use of rhyme and meter like poem. To make the poem decorative, poet uses some meter or rhyme which brings artificiality in it. prose are for giving information where as poems are to give pleasure. 

·         Difference between poem and poetry.

           

   Poem and Poetry also has a thin line between them which can separate them.  A poem is the arrangement of words which can be described as something made or created. A poem is a literary term written in verse with rhyme, meter and musicality which give us delight. While the poetry can be described as a activity of poet's mind, as Coleridge points out that "poetry of the highest kind may exist without meter and even without the contra-distinguishing objects of poem".

               He also adds that 'poetry' is an activity of mind and a poem is merely one of the forms of its expression, a verbal expression of that activity is basically an activity of imagination. If we look at this art of work than it can be also considered as a poetry.