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Othello as an Aristotelian Character
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Othello as an Aristotelian Character
Examines Shakespeare's tragic hero and the applicability of Aristotle's dramatic ideas.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages) |
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1993
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"William Shakespeare's Othello presents the title character as a tragic hero in a way that illustrates the definition offered of the tragic hero by Aristotle. A comparison of the character in the play with the description of the tragic hero offered by Aristotle shows the similarities and also shows where Shakespeare may have differed from Aristotle.F.L. Lucas writes about the characters of tragedy as Aristotle has delineated them and notes that they must be "good" but not perfect, appropriate or true to type, and consistent or true to themselves. Lucas says that "good" in the context in which Aristotle uses it means noble or fine, and thus the characters appropriate to tragedy are elevated characters, because "tragedy in Aristotle's theory represented men as finer than they are.". More correctly, Aristotle holds that human ..."
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