literary criticism

1. LITERARY THEORY
AND CRITICISM-
WESTERN POETICS
-1
PREPARED BY
PAYAL
CHUDASAMA
DEPARTMENT OF
ENGLISH
LITERATURE

2. ANALYSIS OF THE TRAGEDY FORM
• Student name:payal chudasama
• Paper name: Literary Theory and criticism-western poetics-1
• Topic:Analysis of the tragedy form
• Study:M.A.(part:1) sem:1
• Roll no:24
• Enrollment no: 2069841020200005
• Email I’d:chudasmapayal1997@gmail.com
• Bath: 2019 -21
• Submitted by:Maharaja Krishna Kumarshihaji bhavanagar university

3. ● WHAT IS TRAGEDY?
• Tragedy is a type of drama that presents a serious subject matter about
suffering and corresponding terrible events in a dignified manner.
• Tragedy is clean ,it is rest ful , it is flawless.

5. ●WHAT IS THE ARISTOTELIAN THEORY OF TRAGEDY ?
• In this poetics, the philosopher Aristotle laid out of idea that poetic art is “The
imitation of an action .” This imitation , or mimesis, is a writer’s attempt to
represent reality or truth in artistic form.
• “ Imitation of an action that is serious, complete, and has sufficient size in a
language. That is made sweet exciting pity and fear, bringing a about a
catharsis. ”

7. ● ARISTOTLE’S CONCEPT OF TRAGEDY:
• Tragedy is serious.
• It in action and not narration.
• Plot is the soul of tragedy.
• Elements of anagnorisis and perspective.
• Death of the protagonist character.
• In embellished language.

8. ●THE SIX ELEMENT OF TRAGEDY:
☆ plot
☆character
☆Thought
☆Diction
☆ song (Melody)
☆spectacle

9. ● CONTINUE.......
《1》 plot:
Aristotle said that, “The soul of drama.” The arrangement of the incidents, the action , to which all the other elements are
subordinate.
《2》Thought:
The faculty of saying what is possible and pertinent in given circumstances every effect produced by speech.
《3》Character:
Determines men’s qualities; that which reveals moral purpose. Four things to be aimed at goodness , propriety, truthfulness to life ,
consistency.
《4》Diction:
The expression of the meaning in words; the art of delivery.
《5》Song (Melody):
Holds the chief place among the embellishment.
《6》Spectacle :
Has an emotional attraction for the audience, but is the least artistics of the parts, since it derives not from the poet but from the
machinist.

10. ● THREE UNITY OF TRAGEDY

11. ● CONTINUE .....
The classical unites, Aristotelian unites, represent a prescriptive theory of
dramatic tragedy that was introduced in Itali in the 16th century and was
influential for three centuries.
◇ Unity of action: A tragedy should have one principal action .
◇ Unity of time : The action in a tragedy should occur over a period of no
more than 24 hours.
◇ Unity of place : A tragedy should exist in a single physical location.

12. ● TYPE OF TRAGEDY:
♤Greek Tragedy
♤ Roman Tragedy
♤ Revenge Tragedy
♤ Tragic Comedy
♤ Domestic Tragedy

13. ● ELEMENTS OF SHEKESPEREAN TRAGEDY:
{1} Structure
{2} Tragic Hero
{3} Tragic conflict
{4} The supernatural, fate and chance

15. ● REFERENCE:
• Wekipidia