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This 9 page paper defines the tragic tale or play by Aristotle's definitions in his work POETICS. His definitions are then used to analyze the modern work of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman. The definitions are also used to disect the plays of Sophocle's Oedipus Rex and Shakespeare's Othello. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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work interrelated, but according to Aristotle the mark of a truly good tragedy or artwork in general is the incorporation of all three elements. According to Aristotle, the only artwork
in existence is that of the lyric, tragic or comic poem, because all three elements, which he also calls rhythm, language, and tune, are present(Kennedy 1297). This rhythm, language, and
tune are but the means with which the artisan portrays his or her craft, but the object of imitation would seem to compare and contrast the real world with the
fantasy world, or what is with what is not. Aristotle purported that they only way to know a man was to study what man did, or in other words, his
action, his deeds. Therefore, a writer would presumably write about a man who was better off than man really was, or conversely, worse off that he really was. Comedy represents
man as an object that is worse than he really is, whereas Tragedy portrays man as better than he actually is(Kennedy 1298-1299). The manner of imitation according to Aristotle, though
it can be debated, is the point of view of the story, or dramatic versus narrative types of writing. Why man enjoys plays, whether they are tragic or comic depends
upon the very nature of man to enjoy learning something about others and in return about him or herself. In this way, he argues, we enjoy art work because of
some factor that we can identify with and in return learn a new way of either interpreting behaviors of others, or of ourselves. In the Classical age, Aristotle noticed some
dramatic changes that allowed for the tragic art form to come into being. First the rhythm was changed to iambic pentameter from the trochaic meter, and the whole work was
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