{"id":13,"date":"2008-08-30T11:41:45","date_gmt":"2008-08-30T15:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/aristotelian-analysis\/"},"modified":"2008-09-03T16:27:23","modified_gmt":"2008-09-03T20:27:23","slug":"aristotelian-analysis","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/aristotelian-analysis\/","title":{"rendered":"Aristotelian Analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nI. Plot<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Covering the action of the play (not the meaning) describe the significant part of the plot.<\/li>\n
  2. Inciting incident – what gets the whole story moving – it disrupts the stasis of the world of the play<\/li>\n
  3. Beginning Exposition – what do we need to know to understand the story.<\/li>\n
  4. Complications – disruptions that prevent the easy accomplishment of the goal of the central character (that characters “sufferings”); the pressures on the story.<\/li>\n
  5. Crisis – the moment leading to the climax<\/li>\n
  6. Climax – the highest point of action where the maximum is at stake; a moment of discover and recognition<\/li>\n
  7. Reversal – the downward fall of the action.<\/li>\n
  8. Resolution – the final creation of a new stasis<\/li>\n
  9. Intensive – cause and effect; Extensive – a series of episodes and parallel stories<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    II. Character<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    1. Larger than life<\/li>\n
    2. Unique<\/li>\n
    3. Like us (the audience)<\/li>\n
    4. Stock characters – soap operas, melodramas, sit coms<\/li>\n
    5. Non-human<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      <\/strong><\/p>\n

      III. Idea (Thought)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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      1. Stated by the characters in plain words<\/li>\n
      2. From the action; not the interpretation<\/li>\n
      3. Comparison to themes of the author’s other works<\/li>\n
      4. Comparison of themes by other authors of the time period<\/li>\n
      5. Comparison of themes of plays with similar actions<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

        <\/strong><\/p>\n

        IV. Language<\/strong><\/p>\n

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        1. Special words<\/li>\n
        2. Vocabulary<\/li>\n
        3. Jargon<\/li>\n
        4. Vocabulary of what time – the author’s, the periods, the audience’s<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

          <\/strong><\/p>\n

          V. Music\/Sound<\/strong><\/p>\n

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          1. Not just background music and sound effects<\/li>\n
          2. Characters voices<\/li>\n
          3. Accents, dialects, presentational, realistic<\/li>\n
          4. Social implications – when King’s enter trumpets sound<\/li>\n
          5. How was the play originally performed; theatrical style of period dictates certain sounds<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

            <\/strong><\/p>\n

            VI. Spectacle<\/strong><\/p>\n

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            1. Environment of the play – what did the theatre look like<\/li>\n
            2. Setting, Costumes<\/li>\n
            3. Entrances, exits<\/li>\n
            4. Could the audience see, hear<\/li>\n
            5. How did the actors move<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

              <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

              I. Plot Covering the action of the play (not the meaning) describe the significant part of the plot. Inciting incident – what gets the whole story moving – it disrupts the stasis of the world of the play Beginning Exposition – what do we need to know to understand the story. Complications – disruptions that … Continue reading Aristotelian Analysis<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":420,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-13","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/420"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}