Aristotle's poetic

                   Aristotle's poetic

     Hello readers, I am writing this blog as an assignment by the Department of English, MKBU. It is about Aristotle's poetic and 5 questions regarding it. 

 

1) what is your understanding about Aristotle's poetics?

Ans : 

           Aristotle's poetic is about Plato's charges upon poets and poetry and Aristotle's reply to that charges.

      

           According to Plato poetry is imitation. It is a copy. In poetry there is immorality and untruth. Plato remarks two things about poets, the first is that the poets drow the picture of God in very false manner. They give less importance to God rather than human being and the second thing is that poets brings about a change in the unchanging world. They have no right to change the universal truth. Poets are emirators, copier, immoral, posessed and liars.

          Plato's major three objections are:

1) Poetry is not ethical because it promotes undesirable passion.

2) It is not philosophical because it does not provide true knowledge.

3) It is not pragmatic because it is inferior to the practical arts and therefore has no educational value.

            Aristotle give reply to Plato's charges. He is not agree with Plato's charges. According to Aristotle, poetry is not copying, it is making. Poet makes poetry by his own imagination. There is also using the word 'Mimesis' which means 'to make'. Poets represent the reality in a very useful way from which the human being learn so many things.

         Every genre has their own characteristics. For example, criticism is the judgement upon merits and demerits of any literary work, so it have to do judgement like wise poetry is the imagination of poets, it shows beauty, so it will be imaginative and imitative. We cannot raise questions upon it's structure.

          Aristotle thought that poetry or tragedy leads to catharsis, which means purification. It means we check our negative emotions and purifying it.

          Tragedy refers the complete structurisation. Tragedy is never build without plot. Plot is the soul of tragedy. Tragedy connects with emotional effects, there is pity and fear are both emotions of tragedy.

            Here, the word 'Hamartia' is also using. In Aristotlian tragedy we find Hamartia. Which means an error of judgement. According to Aristotle tragedy is that which has structural plot, Hamartia, catharsis, etc.

          To sum up, according to my understanding Aristotle's poetic shows Plato's objections upon poetry and Aristotle's replies upon this objections, and also the concept of tragedy and the tragic Hero.

2) Which reference to the literary text you have studied during B.A programme, writer brief note on the texts which followed Aristotlian literally tradition.

Ans : 

          There are few literary works in our B.A programme which followed Aristotlian literally tradition

    - All my sons

    - Othello

    - Heart of darkness

    - Ghashiram kotwal

    - Tughlaq

     We will discuss about 'Othello' by William Shakespeare to see aristotleon literary tradition.

 

      Othello:

 

   - Catharsis : - At the end of the play Othello has catharsis and realises lago lead him astray, and that it was his own trust, naivate and jealousy led him to take Desdemona's life.

   - Harmaita : -  Othello's insecurity and jealousy

   - Hubris : - Othello allows Lago to manipulate him.

3) with reference to the literary text you have studied during B.A programme, write brief not on the text which did not follow Aristotlian literary tradition.

Ans:

        We had a few literary works in our B.A programme which didn't follow Aristotlian tradition.

    - Far from the madding crowd

    - The Namesake

    - Mobydick

    - The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

 

        This are the work that uninclusive to Aristotlian literally tradition.

4) Have you studied any tragedies during B.A programme? Who was/were the protagonist/s in those tragedies? Ehat was their Hamartia?

Ans: 

        - Ahab (Moby dick)

          Hamartia of Ahab in mobe dick is defiance.

 

        - Othello (Othello)

        Hamartia of othello is insecurity and jealousy.

        - Joe keller (All my sons)

            Hamartia of joe keller is pride. Because of this he feels that he will let his family down .

        - Ghashiram kotwal (Ghashiram kotwal)

         Hamartia of Ghashiram kotwal is lust of power. It led him to the death.

5) Did the plot of those tragedies follow necessary rules and regulations proposed by Aristotle?

Ans: 

         Yes, those tragedies follow necessary rules and regulations proposed by Aristotle. For example: Othello is the flawed, unlike and epic hero. The flaw turns his heroism into a tragedy as insisted by Aristotle's classic model.