Arcane has never been traditional in any sense, from the visuals to the characters' growth, so why should it let a dramatic ...

I have taught on a university campus for close to two decades, but only recently have I started to give some consideration to comedy as a serious source of study.

Aristotle argued that true happiness comes from living a life of virtue and realizing one’s potential, rather than pursuing fleeting pleasures or material wealth. Image: Canva 2.

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Freytag’s Pyramid is based heavily on its creator’s admiration of Shakespeare and French dramatists, as well as his keen understanding of Aristotle’s “Poetics,” which established the ...

Yet despite its influence, the Poetics is frequently misunderstood. These misreadings, such as of the idea of a character’s “fatal flaw”, have been as influential as Aristotle’s actual ideas.

Mimesis and catharsis Aristotle’s argument, at its core, is that tragedy should be mimetic (meaning imitative or reflective) to action and life. Mimesis is a foundational concept of the Poetics.

Aristotle defined anagnorisis specifically within the context of tragedy, but only because the philosopher’s treatise on comedy in “Poetics” may have been lost to time.