Nicomachean Ethics is an ethical treatise by the Greek philosopher Aristotle. In contrast to Plato, who deduces his conclusions from concepts, Aristotle comes upon his beliefs through a ground-up approach, approaching the question of what is good by examining the choices that good people agree upon. Aristotle discusses how the good life is attained by performing righteous actions to build good habits to build good character and the highest virtues. Aristotle believes in the "golden mean"--a lifestyle of balance, and the individual cultivation of virtue.
Aristotle's Poetics is a theoretical work about drama, written c. 355 BC. The surviving half of the work is about tragedy, outlining and explaining the genres and necessary elements of a good tragedy. A tragedy must present a good, consistent protagonist, who experiences a turn of fortune (peripeteia) ending in his suffering (pathos) and his realization (anagnorisis) of the accident or miscalculation (hamartia) that caused his misfortune. For Aristotle, the elements of tragedy, from most to least important, are: plot, character, thought, diction, melody, spectacle.
The Politics is a work of political philosophy by Aristotle, who characterizes men as "political animals" and claims that the city (polis) is the highest type of community. Aristotle discusses family matters, slaves and property, as well as governments, claiming that public virtue is greater than private virtue. While creating theoretical definitions for good governments (royalty, aristocracy, constitutional) and their corrupted variants (tyranny, oligarchy, democracy, respectively), Aristotle also analyzes the actual governments of various Greek cities.
Question 3 Discuss the ending of one of the short stories we have explored Why do you think the writer ends the story there Are your expectations fulfilled by the end of the story Title of chosen story Where are you going where have you been A short story by Joyce Carol Oates A short summary of the story illustrates the main character Connie a beautiful but self absorbed 15 year old girl who is at odds with her mother and older sister Without her parents knowledge she spends most of her evening
A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF THE NOVEL The Return of the Native looks at first like a typical nineteenth century novel long with several plots and set in a wide landscape But this tale is really very compact The major action takes place in a years time All of the characters live in the Egdon area and the outside world does not intrude we do not hear for example about the national problems of England All of the major characters are bound together in a dense knot of relationships The structure of this
The story of Othello consists of the themes betrayal love and dishonesty At the centre of this play is the tragic downfall of Othello at the hands of his so called friend Iago The play is set in Venice which at the height of the renaissance was referred to as The Sovereign City a wealthy and powerful city In the time of Othello the value of money was of high importance within the Venetian Society The philosopher Aristotles 384 322BC stated that a tragic hero must go through four stages These ar
Does the audience respond to Othello with enough admiration and awe at his downfall for him to attain the status of a tragic hero From the beginning of the play the audience is impressed with Othello They see a man who has risen through the ranks against racism and tribulations to attain his current rank and status within society One of Othellos first lines Let him do his spite my services which I have done the signiory shall out tongue his complaints is massively influential for the audiences
Aristotle defines Oedipus as a tragic hero for his unfortunate sequence of events As a child Oedipus was given a prophecy that he was to grow up marrying his mother and slaying his father Jocasta and Laius try to impede the prophecy by killing Oedipus but in the end fate was the ultimate victor Aristotle defines a tragic hero by four qualities goodness appropriateness lifelike and consistency Aristotles Tragic Hero According to Aristotle Oedipus is an ideal example of a tragic hero for causing
Lord of the Flies Essay No notice is taken of a little evil but when it increases it strikes the eye Aristotle This quote by Aristotle can directly relate to the young group of British boys stranded on an island during war In this novel The Lord of the Flies by William Golding a group of young British boys that have crash landed are left stranded on an island These boys start out on an island as innocent little kids who try to build their own community like their elders back home in Britain But