POL200Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Tyrant, Haemon, The Public Theater
14 Sep 2017
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Tragedy are works of dramatic literature with important consequences. Have to be enacted in appropriate and pleasurable language. Cant just be stories, have to be preformed. We feel bad for the tragic hero. Reading tragedy is supposed to create a catharsis. These emotions are good for us: evidence that we still enjoy tragedy to this day. Sophocles: best known greek tragedy writer, born in athens ~497bc, born into luxury. His success in these elds can all be linked. Antigone: 442bc - in athens, grouped with oedipus stories (theban plays) Each might be within a set of 4: not an explicit political play. Doesn"t talk explicitly about problems that athens faced politically: character driving. Morality: implicitly a commentary on politics. People who are the best representation of our own values and thoughts. Antigone (vs. creon vs. ismene: her drive is to bury her brother. Divine laws are related to human laws but not exactly the same: these differ from ismene:
