Deviprasad Goenka Management college of Media Studies http://www.dgmcms.org.in/ Subject: Literature and Creative Writing Lesson 1 : WHAT IS LITERATURE DRAMA Faculty Name: Amol Jadhav

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Lesson 1
WHAT IS LITERATURE
DRAMA
Subject:
Literature and
Creative
Writing
Faculty Name:
Amol Jadhav
India’s premier M-school
Deviprasad Goenka Management College of Media Studies (dgmcms.org.in)

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 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

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 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

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 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.

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 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.

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Soliloquy
ANTONY
“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

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+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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