LITERATURE QUESTIONS
LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM
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thought
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plot
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character
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spectacle
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Detailed explanation-1: -Plot is the soul of a tragedy. It is the first principle and the most important feature of a tragedy because action is the most significant aspect of a tragedy. There can be tragedy without character or music or dance; but there cannot be a tragedy without action. Plot is the arrangement of incidents.
Detailed explanation-2: -“Most important of all, ” Aristotle said, “is the structure of the incidents. For tragedy is an imitation not of men but of an action and of life, and life consists in action, and its end is a mode of action, not a quality.” Aristotle considered the plot to be the soul of a tragedy, with character in second place.
Detailed explanation-3: -The plot, then, is the first principle, and, as it were, the soul of a tragedy; Character holds the second place. A similar fact is seen in painting. The most beautiful colors, laid on confusedly, will not give as much pleasure as the chalk outline of a portrait.
Detailed explanation-4: -the five parts are: Exposition, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action and Denouement.