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This 5 page paper discusses Aristotle’s “requirements” for a tragedy, and why Othello is a tragic hero. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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seen as a tragic hero in the Aristotelian sense. Discussion Obviously, the first thing to do is find out what Aristotle had to say about the subject. His thinking on
theater appears in his Poetics, but instead of slogging through it well let Professor Barbara McManus of the College of New Rochelle summarize it for us. She notes that Aristotle
a tragedy has to have a "certain magnitude"; that is, it has to be of substantial importance-losing the car keys is not a tragedy (McManus). Aristotle said that every tragedy
must have six parts: "Plot, Characters, Diction, Thought, Spectacle, Melody" (McManus). Aristotle also said that tragedy is "drama, not narrative"; it shows rather than telling (McManus). Aristotle also says that
tragedy is "higher and more philosophical than history" because history simply tells us what happened, but tragedy dramatizes what happened, or is happening, or may happen (McManus). Historical events may
have many causes, some accidental or coincidental, but tragedy is "rooted in the fundamental order of the universe; it creates a cause-and-effect chain that clearly reveals what may happen at
any time or place because that is the way the world operates" (McManus). Because of its inevitability, tragedy rouses both pity and fear in the audience, because the audience members
can see themselves as part of this chain of cause-and-effect (McManus). Lets very briefly go down the six parts of a tragedy or well spend all our time with Aristotle
and never get to Shakespeare. Plot is the first: it has to have a "beginning, middle and end" and must be of a "certain magnitude," as noted above (McManus). Plot
is the most important thing of all (McManus). Second place goes to character, and in the best tragedies, "character will support plot, i.e., personal motivations will be intricately connected parts
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