LITERATURE QUESTIONS
INTRODUCTION TO LITERARY STUDIES
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In a Greek tragedy, evil people are vanquished by the forces of good.
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In a Greek tragedy, characters undergo reversals of fortune, usually for the worse.
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In a Greek tragedy, the hero suffers but always survives at the end of the play.
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In a Greek tragedy, the tragic hero dies at the end of the play.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Characteristics of Greek tragedy include the flawed tragic hero, a mix of spoken and sung narration, and some sort of intervention from the gods. This intervention may be positive or negative for the hero.
Detailed explanation-2: -Aristotle distinguished six elements of tragedy: “plot, characters, verbal expression, thought, visual adornment, and song-composition.” Of these, PLOT is the most important.
Detailed explanation-3: -Be flawed: While being heroic, the character must also have a tragic flaw (also called hamartia) or more generally be subject to human error, and the flaw must lead to the character’s downfall.
Detailed explanation-4: -Aristotle defined three key elements which make a tragedy: harmartia, anagnorisis, and peripeteia.