Tutorial class 3

Hello again.

In class, we did sharing of some of our 50 word stories. Really hilarious ones. Whenever I hear everyone’s stories, I can’t help but feel embarrassed about my own. Well, I guess it takes time! I’ve also learnt more about Aristotle after all the presentations (at least I had known that he first started stories!) If not for those presentations, I might not even know Aristotle existed!

Ryan told me to try writing about why I don’t like writing. Ok here it goes..

I feel that writing is a chore. Because when you write, you have to think alot. Honestly speaking, I dislike thinking analytically. When I write, I get all my tenses wrong too. Back in secondary school, whenever we were told to write compos, I’ll just finish it as quick as possible and I’m usually the first few to finish in class. It is quite bad as I didn’t think serious enough before writing. Before I start writing everytime, I’ll have trouble starting off. One thing that I would choose poly over jc is due to writing. I thought poly dosen’t need to write. But this module proved me wrong. Infact, this form of writing is definitely more challenging than before. I’m definitely not one who appreciate poetry (unlike kane. haha) too. I hope this module dosen’t do poetry!

Ok, I better get started on People Watch…

MY LECTURE NOTES
What is a plot

- Plot is the arrangement of incidents
- It is not the story itself, but the way the incidents are presented to the audience
- The structure of the play

Beginning
- The incitive moment
- It must start the cause and effect chain

Middle
- Climax
- It must be caused by earlier incidents and itself cause the incidents that follow it.

End
- Resolution
- Must be caused by the preceding events but not lead to other incidents.

EPISODIC PLOTS
- According to aristotle, the worst kind of plots
- The acts (episodes) succeed one another without probability or necessity
- The only thing tying together the events in such a plot is the fact that they happen to the same person.
- Stretches the plot beyond it’s capacity and usually breaks the community of the story
- No connection between events that occur except that it happens to the same person.
- Playwrights should avoid coincidences from their plot
- However in tragedies, such as coincidences serve to evoke fear or pity from the audiences
- Large impact and irony

Important vocabulary
- Hatharsis
- Mimesis- imitation
- Anagnorisis- moment of recognition
- Perepeteia- change of events
- Hamartia- lack of self knowledge