LITERATURE QUESTIONS
LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM
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It is only lyrical songs in the play
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It should be regarded as one of the actors
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It should make only reports
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It should only comment on the action
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Detailed explanation-1: -Aristotle stated in his Poetics: The chorus too must be regarded as one of the actors. It must be part of the whole and share in the action, not as in Euripides but as in Sophocles.
Detailed explanation-2: -The chorus in Classical Greek drama was a group of actors who described and commented upon the main action of a play with song, dance, and recitation. Greek tragedy had its beginnings in choral performances, in which a group of 50 men danced and sang dithyrambs-lyric hymns in praise of the god Dionysus.
Detailed explanation-3: -The chorus tells the audience hints and clues as to what will occur later in the play. In Antigone, the chorus foreshadows Antigone and Creon’s downfall by singing about the ‘mastery of man’ and his limits. The chorus says man has conquered ‘all but death, ’ which foreshadows what is in store for Antigone.
Detailed explanation-4: -“Tragedy, ” says Aristotle, “is an imitation [mimēsis] of an action that is serious, complete, and of a certain magnitude…through pity and fear effecting the proper purgation [catharsis] of these emotions.” Ambiguous means may be employed, Aristotle maintains in contrast to Plato, to a virtuous and purifying end.
Detailed explanation-5: -: a group of people who with persistence express especially similar views or feelings about a particular action or series of actions.