Passion
Last weeks post been kind of sucky. So anyways here’s this week’s post. Regarding Ryan’s lesson last week. I must say it’s pretty boring compared to the previous lessons. We had to answer the questions regarding Aristotle. The question I was in charge of was :
What is the responsibility of characters in an Aristotelian tragedy?
Characters are ranked 2nd in place in importance in and Aristotelian tragedy. Characters are responsible for supporting the plot, for example, personal motivations will be intricately connected parts of the cause-and-effect chain of actions producing pity and fear in the audience.
The protagonist of an Aristotelian tragedy should be renowned and prosperous, thus his change can be from good to bad, becoming a tragedy. This would generate pity and fear in the audience. In the ideal tragedy, Aristotle claims that the protagonist will mistakenly bring about his own downfall—not because he is sinful or morally weak, but because he does not know enough.
Also, the qualities of characters in a tragedy, a character needs to be..
• Good or fine because Aristotle relates this quality to moral purpose and says it is relative to class.
• Suitable to their roles, for example Valor is appropriate for warriors but not for women
• Realistic
• Consistency of characters throughout the story. For example, if a character’s personality is established, it should remain same throughout.
• Characters must be necessary to the plot.
• Characters should be presented as perfect or at least better than reality
Reference from http://www.cnr.edu/home/bmcmanus/poetics.html
I’m not sure if this is a good answer but that’s what I got.
Ok, now regarding the reflections. It has been tough choosing CCAs in Ngee Ann Poly. Up til now, I’m still CCA-less. Dragonboat clashes with my 3rd language lesson on Thursday. Basketball was too hard to get into the team. Congrats to those who made it.
Regarding basketball, it’s a sport that has been with me since primary school. I could spend the whole afternoon at the basketball court with my friends. We could play until sometimes our parents wonder why are we not home yet.
Then, we had to proceed to secondary school. I was posted to Victoria School. At VS, there was no basketball CCA. Therefore, I sort of lost contact with the sport. Though there wasn’t any contact with the sport, the passion for the sport is still burning, but there was nothing I could do about it.
Then to Ngee Ann Poly, due to lack of match experience and skills, I didn’t make it as well. I was wondering could it be fate that I should not play this game.
However, this time, I did not do nothing about it. I managed to get into an outside team through my best friend. So now, I’m basically playing in an outside team despite my lack of skills and match experience.
From this incidence, I realized that if there is something that you want to do badly but still unable to do it due to certain obstacles, never give up. Find alternatives that can get you across the obstacle and proceeding with what you want to do. Follow your passion, for it is something I know which can never be wrong.
Hey, this week even had a moral!
Alright, maybe it was a childish, Disney-movie sort of “never give up your dreams” moral that I suspect you would roll your eyes at if you saw it in a movie. Nonetheless, it connected the writing into an overall vision.
It also propels me in a direction: what are your reactions to feel-good movies, the ones where the soccer team overcomes all the odds to make it to the championships, or the one where the girl finally gets the man of her dreams? Are you easily moved by movies? Do you have a soft spot for happy endings? (See how easy it really is to connect your reflection back to the storytelling topic of the week, tragedy?)