Definition, six elements

1. Topic :- Six parts of Tragedy
Paper No.:- o3
Name :- Krishna. K .Patel
Pg.Reg.No:-2069108420190035
Roll no.: 20
Email Id :- krishnadobariya08@gmail.com
Submitted to :- Smt. S. B. Gardi MKBU,
Department of English
Year :- 2018 – 2020

2. Aristotle (384 BC – 322 BC)
• Aristotle was an Ancient
Greek philosopher and
scientist who is still
considered one of the
greatest thinkers in politics,
psychology and ethics.

3. Definition of Tragedy
• Tragedy, then, is an imitation of an action
that is serious, complete, and of a certain
magnitude; in language embellished with
each kind of artistic ornament , the several
kinds being found in separate parts of the
play; in the form of action, not of narrative;
through pity and fear effecting the proper
purgation of these emotions.

4. Six Parts of Tragedy
SPECTACLE
SONG
DICTION
THOUGHT
CHARACTER
PLOT

5. Plot
• The soul of drama, the arrangement of the
incidents, the action, to which all the other
elements are subordinate.

6. Character
• Determines men’s qualities ,
that which reveals moral
purpose. Four things to be
aimed at; goodness,
propriety, truthfulness to life,
consistency.

7. Thought
• The faculty of saying what is
possible and pertinent in given
circumstances; every effect
produced by speech.

8. Diction
• The expression of the meaning
in words; the art of delivery.

9. Song
• Holds the chief place among
the embellishments.

10. Spectacle
• Spectacle has an emotional
attraction for the audience, but is
the least artistic, since it derives
not from the poet but from the
machinist.

11. Conclusion
• In every kind of representational literature plot has
its own importance, characters are bound to be
there though they may be of different types, it will
have a definite central thought expressed in
appropriate diction and technique; finally, it will
have its own end or purpose in place of catharsis.
Similarly, they have their own thought, way of
presentation and spectacle.