Lesson 3 reflection and notes.

Reflection.

I found that in this lesson we begain to get down to some real work. We reviewed the openers and the stories each partner was supposed to write for the other based on one opener. I read my story out to the class and was able to get some good feedback. . Cliched endings, i should try to avoid those and i have be more aware of my habit of swithing between present and past tense. Lets not forget, class started later because of a fire drill, yes a fire drill that involved real fireman minus the real fire. We had group presentations for the aristotle research thing and we didn’t use powerpoint although my group did some slides… oh well… From what i noticed, Aristotle ( Greek lunatic) is one confusing dude but all of us manage to make some sense of his theories and stuff. I bet Alexander’s shuddering in his grave right now. To sum it all up, lesson 3 was still pretty interesting..

 Notes.

-Aristotles poetics : a book about the basic foundation of writing poems.

A greek tragedy is a drama genre and in it the heroes will die in the end.

In a greek tragedy the someone through fate will be punished for having to much confindense or pride in the end and things like the over confidence will lead to the downfall of the character.

6 Important parts.

1. PLOT : results of a mansactions determines hsi success and his failures. With no action there can be no tragedy.
2. Character
3. Thought : some kind of inteligent design to the plot structure.
4. Diction
5. Spectacle

According to aristotle a good story : shows rather than tells,creates cause-and-effect chain that clearly reveals what may happen and arouses not only pitty but fear as well,because memebers of the audience can imaigne themselves within the cause-and effect chain.

Cause and effect chain.

• Good plot of unity of action.
• It should be set in one place.
• Film breaks this rule.

Plot is most important aspect of tragedy and a plot is defines as  an arrangement of incidents,the structure of the play, the arrangement of how you communicate the important elements of the play and it is not the story itself but the way the incidents are presented to the audience. .

3 aspects of a plot.

1. The Begaining :- the incitive moment and it must start the cause and effect chain.
2. The middle :- The climax and it must be caused by earleir incidents.
3. The end :- Resolution, must be caused by the preceding events but not lead to new incidents.