LITERATURE QUESTIONS
LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM
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It represents the nature
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It contributes to the spiritual growth of people
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It shows a tragedy
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It imitates nobility
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Detailed explanation-1: -Plato has a positive view of art in so far as it contributes to the spiritual growth of people. Imitation, which perform such a function has a principal place in his view. Truth is the end in such imitation and not pleasure.
Detailed explanation-2: -According to Plato, art is false knowledge of reality. An artist’s imitation can deceive common people, not the philosopher, who knows the essence of reality or the real being of things.
Detailed explanation-3: -For Plato’s aesthetic philosophy as presented Ion, art is divine inspiration. It is a divine madness similar to that overtaking a prophet when the god speaks through them.
Detailed explanation-4: -Plato and Aristotle argue that artist (Demiurge) and poet imitate nature, thus, a work of art is a relection of nature. However, they have different views on the functions of imitation in art and literature. Plato believes in the existence of the ideal world, where exists a real form of every object found in nature.
Detailed explanation-5: -Tragedy and comedy were culturally dominant art forms during Socrates’ lifetime and much of Plato’s. Innovative, memorable, and now long enduring, Athenian drama invited scrutiny.