200 words paper, analysis of the play (Hamlet)
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Summary
katharsis (the 4 meanings current in Aristotle's day):1. root sense was "cleaning" (e.g. katharsis of the house)
2. ritual cleansing of physical objects, "purification" of souls through music and incantations, healing of souls
3. Hippocratics: bowel movement : expulsion of noxious bodily elements (incl menstruation, urination, defecation, ejaculation)
4. Plato: intellectual "clarification" (though not in relation to poetry, music)
Questions
In the Republic , Plato presents us with two areas of meaning of the word mimesis : * Impersonation : "to liken oneself to another either in voice or in appearance is to make a mimesis of the person to whom one likens oneself" (Republic, 393c5).
He makes the distinction between mimesis and diegesis : narration which does not involve direct speech.
* Image-making : in Book X of The Republic , mimesis is not confined to impersonation - here the notion of mimesis is extended to cover 'image-making in general
This relates to Plato's theory of Forms in which the material world is a poor copy of the true Form. The artist is responding to and making images of the poor copy: a copy of a copy
Notes
Dramatic Writing
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Script Analysis
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Drama Structure
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