Questions for Aristotle
1. Into how many parts can the treatise on Poetics be divided? Sum up the outline of the major sections and the subdivisions.
2. Summarize and comment on Aristotle’s discussion of the three unities.
3. Discuss the role of catharsis in Aristotle’s discussion of tragedy.
4. What are the elements of plot in Aristotle’s theory? Do you think these elements adequately encompass the aspects of plot?
5. What, according to Aristotle, are the two tragic emotions? What effect does tragedy have upon these emotions?
6. Tragedy, according to Aristotle, is essentially an imitation, not of men, but of an action. What characteristics should this action have? How does Aristotle describe a “whole”? What must the poet invent to imitate an action?
7. What is the “true difference” between poetry and history? What does Aristotle mean by the “universal”?
8. What are the two kinds of plot and how are they distinguished?
9. Section XXV, in part at least, has been called a “direct response to Plato's theory of imitation.” What are the three general objects of imitation specified in this section, and how indeed does this conception of mimesis provide the possibility of replying to some of Socrates' objections as they are spelled out in The Republic?
10. What does Aristotle mean when he says that “the poet should prefer probable impossibilities to improbable possibilities” (XXIV)? How is this observation related to Aristotle's insistence throughout the Poetics that the incidents of a plot ought to be connected according to the rule of probability or necessity?
11. What is the focus of Poetics, work, world, author, or reader?
12. Why do you think that Poetics is the forerunner of structuralism?
13. According to your understanding of Poetics, what is the definition of poetics?
14. Compared with Plato, what is the difference between his and Aristotle’s version of creating writing?
15. What are the regulations to drama set by Aristotle? Or how do you understand the term “unity”?
16. How did Aristotle define and explain the six parts of tragedy?
17. What is the difference between the poet and the historian according Chapter IX of Poetics?
18. Structurally what is the tragedy?
19. What are the quantitative parts into which tragedy in divided?
20. What are the main differences between epic and tragedy?
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