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This paper addresses the happy ending in Greek tragedy – viewed as the first audiovisual mass-culture manifestation –, connecting features specifically assigned to tragedy and melodrama, such as ex-machina endings and the Aristotelian alogon, pathos, tears and moans, which gave Plato the main reason...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra
2014-03-01
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| Series: | MatLit : Materialidades da Literatura |
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| Online Access: | http://iduc.uc.pt/index.php/matlit/article/view/1651 |
| Summary: | This paper addresses the happy ending in Greek tragedy – viewed as the first audiovisual mass-culture manifestation –, connecting features specifically assigned to tragedy and melodrama, such as ex-machina endings and the Aristotelian alogon, pathos, tears and moans, which gave Plato the main reason to oppose that form of art. Following Aristotle’s precepts in the Poetics, I will focus on the contradiction between chapters 13 and 14, in which he prescribes a happy and an unhappy ending. I have concluded that there is little difference between tragedy and melodrama as pertains to the exclusive features of Greek tragedy, but that there is a great difference when focusing on the features proposed by Aristotle, who therefore can not be held responsible for the shifting of tragedy towards melodrama. |
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| ISSN: | 2182-8830 2182-8830 |