Aristotle's Poetics

 1. Aristotle refers to pity and fear because in his opinion a tragedy must have a change from good to bad fortune, resulting not from badness one that arises from the action themselves.

2. Aristotle believes that tragedy it imitates an action, it arouses pity and fear, it displays the human image as such, it ends in wonder, and it is inherently beautiful. So, he doesn't necessarily categorize fear and pity to be the only feelings you feel because someone can also have feelings towards wonder and beauty.

3. Aristotle says that it is the mark of an educated person to know what needs explanation and what doesn’t. He does not try to prove that there is such a thing as nature, or motion. Likewise, he
understands the recognition of a special and powerful form of drama built around pity and fear as the beginning of an inquiry and spends not one word justifying that restriction. We, however, can see better why he starts there by trying out a few simple alternatives. The fear is relieved in vengeance, and we feel a satisfaction that we might be inclined to call justice.

4. If movies, plays and other things have no levels to the dramatic feel it won't move us to feel anything. The play will be one dimensional, bland, and have no excitement. Whereas when it has these different genres, it allows a person to FEEL the different emotions and allows you to see the play in a different light. It's exciting to be angry at a character or happy with one. We all had that one show that you just dislike their character so much so that you even dislike them in other shows they're in. It's because they have played their character so well, it's that dramatic feel. 

 5. The beautiful always produces wonder if it is seen as beautiful, and the sense of wonder always sees beauty.

6. Happy endings don't make us happy because it usually isn't something that truly happens in real life. It's a cliche. I don't think we necessarily enjoy seeing a beautiful life destroyed but beauty can be found in tragedy. In Antigone its beautiful to see how hard she fought for her rights of her brother.


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