{"id":106,"date":"2020-02-26T21:35:13","date_gmt":"2020-02-27T02:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/provincialenglishabe\/chapter\/genre-tragedy\/"},"modified":"2022-01-05T18:36:31","modified_gmt":"2022-01-05T23:36:31","slug":"genre-tragedy","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/provincialenglishabe\/chapter\/genre-tragedy\/","title":{"raw":"Genre: Tragedy","rendered":"Genre: Tragedy"},"content":{"raw":"<h1>Aristotle (384 \u2013 322 BCE)<\/h1>\n<ol type=\"A\">\n \t<li>Elements of Tragedy\n<ol>\n \t<li>Serious and important plot<\/li>\n \t<li>Turns out disastrously for the main character<\/li>\n \t<li>Should arouse pity and fear in the audience<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n \t<li>Tragic Hero\n<ol>\n \t<li>Neither an all good nor all bad person<\/li>\n \t<li>\"better than we are\" (higher moral worth)<\/li>\n \t<li>Suffers a change in fortune (from happiness to misery)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n \t<li>Tragic Flaw\n<ol>\n \t<li>Error in judgment<\/li>\n \t<li>Disregards a warning or moral law (hubris)<\/li>\n \t<li>We can recognize similar errors in our own lives<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h3>Text Attributions<\/h3>\n<ul>\n \t<li>This chapter was adapted from \"Course Handouts\" by Julia Dodge. Adapted by Allison Kilgannon. <a class=\"internal\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-sa\/4.0\/\">CC BY-NC-SA<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>","rendered":"<h1>Aristotle (384 \u2013 322 BCE)<\/h1>\n<ol type=\"A\">\n<li>Elements of Tragedy\n<ol>\n<li>Serious and important plot<\/li>\n<li>Turns out disastrously for the main character<\/li>\n<li>Should arouse pity and fear in the audience<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Tragic Hero\n<ol>\n<li>Neither an all good nor all bad person<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;better than we are&#8221; (higher moral worth)<\/li>\n<li>Suffers a change in fortune (from happiness to misery)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Tragic Flaw\n<ol>\n<li>Error in judgment<\/li>\n<li>Disregards a warning or moral law (hubris)<\/li>\n<li>We can recognize similar errors in our own lives<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h3>Text Attributions<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>This chapter was adapted from &#8220;Course Handouts&#8221; by Julia Dodge. Adapted by Allison Kilgannon. <a class=\"internal\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-sa\/4.0\/\">CC BY-NC-SA<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"menu_order":2,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-106","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":105,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/provincialenglishabe\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/provincialenglishabe\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/provincialenglishabe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/provincialenglishabe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/provincialenglishabe\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/provincialenglishabe\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/106\/revisions\/107"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/provincialenglishabe\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/105"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/provincialenglishabe\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/106\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/provincialenglishabe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/provincialenglishabe\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=106"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/provincialenglishabe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=106"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/provincialenglishabe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}