Lit ii

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Lesson 1WHAT IS LITERATUREDRAMA

Subject:Literature

and Creative Writing

Faculty Name:Amol Jadhav

Deviprasad Goenka Management College of Media Studies (dgmcms.org.in)

India’s premier M-school


+ Mimesis

Plato argues in his Ion and Republic that poetry is a mere imitation- a mimicry of reality.

The poetry is art of divine madness, or inspiration. Because the poet is subject to this divine madness, it is not his/her function to convey the truth.

Role of orators, poets and actors

Twice removed from ‘reality’

‘Bed’ made by God, Carpenter and Artist


+Catharsis Aristotle put forward his idea of mimesis as it is not

just a mimicry but also an imitation of perfection of nature.

Causes in Nature:

Blueprint or Immortal idea Material ( what is the thing made up of) Process Purpose

Tragedy and Comedy

Catharsis

Empathy


+Dramatic Devices Contrast: alternating humor and pathos, song and dialogue,

tense and tranquil scenes.

Irony: lines having one meaning for the audience and another for the character to whom they are spoken.

Suspense: the feeling of not knowing for sure what will happen, but anticipating it.

Surprise: unexpected twist or turn.

Soliloquy: character speaking to the world in general with no other characters in the scene.

Aside: character speaking confidentially to the audience (often humorously) as if other characters cannot hear what is said.


+ Disguise: props to change the appearance of the

character to fool other characters in the play.

Pause: an incident introduced just before the climax to mislead the audience.

Poetic Justice: letting the villain be punished and the hero reap reward.


+SoliloquyANTONY

“Oh, pardon me, you bleeding corpse, for speaking politely and acting mildly with these butchers! You are what’s left of the noblest man that ever lived. Pity the hand that shed this valuable blood. Over your wounds—which, like speechless mouths, open their red lips, as though to beg me to speak—I predict that a curse will fall upon the bodies of men.”

- Julious Caesar (act 3, sc. 1) William Shakespeare


+Monologues Look, what I speak, my life shall prove it true;

That Mowbray hath received eight thousand nobles In name of lendings for your highness' soldiers, The which he hath detain'd for lewd employments, Like a false traitor and injurious villain. Besides I say and will in battle prove,Or here or elsewhere to the furthest verge That ever was survey'd by English eye, That all the treasons for these eighteen years Complotted and contrived in this land Fetch from false Mowbray their first head and spring.Further I say and further will maintain Upon his bad life to make all this good, That he did plot the Duke of Gloucester's death, Suggest his soon-believing adversaries, And consequently, like a traitor coward, Sluiced out his innocent soul through streams of blood: Which blood, like sacrificing Abel's, cries, Even from the tongueless caverns of the earth, To me for justice and rough chastisement; And, by the glorious worth of my descent,This arm shall do it, or this life be spent

- Richard II (act II, sc. I) William Shakespeare


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Sources:

Theory of Mimesis: Debate of Plato and Artistole

Complete works of William Shakespeare


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CURTAINS

Lit ii

Education

school disguise

school soliloquyantonyoh

school monologues

school sources

amol jadhavindias premier

school catharsis aristotle

school mimesis plato

character speaking