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rox-and-prose · 1 year ago

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Okay I'll be honest. "Doomed by the narrative" is a nothing phrase to me. Meaningless. Which is to say I have no idea what y'all mean when you say it and how it is distinct from concepts like fate or tragic flaws in a sort of ancient greek play sense

#roxy writes #pretty sure aristotle talks about the thing that makes a tragedy a tragedy is a character flaw in an otherwise great person #but i could just be attributing unrelated things to Aristotle as many have done over the years #I do know he said a tragedy is basically about a person who is better than you failing #and a comedy is about a person worse than you succeeding #i disagree but the extent to which i disagree depends on a few definitions and also what thw original greek says #i probably have an old loeb of the poetics somewhere but i dont recall much greek so that would be a chore

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