Um Trágico Final Feliz
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Aristóteles, Poética, Final Feliz, Tragédia, Melodrama, CinemaResumo
Este artigo trata a questão do final feliz na primeira manifestação cultural audiovisual que foi a tragédia grega, relacionando características típicas da tragédia e do melodrama, tais como as soluções ex-machina e o alogon aristotélico, o pathos, as lágrimas e os lamentos, principais motivos da crítica de Platão àquela arte. Seguindo a Poética de Aristóteles, incidi na contradição entre os capítulos 13 e 14, em que se prescreve respetivamente um final infeliz e feliz. Concluí que a tragédia grega não difere do melodrama no que são as características apontadas como exclusivas da primeira, diferindo noutras, muito estanques, definidas por Aristóteles e que, até hoje, não permitem permeabilidade entre formas altas e baixas da cultura de massas, indicando, ao contrário do que a bibliografia afirma, que não se deve a Aristóteles o desvio da tragédia grega para o melodrama.
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This paper addresses the happy ending in Greek tragedy – viewed as the first audiovisual mass-culture manifestation –, connecting features specifically assigned to tragedy and melodrama, such as ex-machina endings and the Aristotelian alogon, pathos, tears and moans, which gave Plato the main reason to oppose that form of art. Following Aristotle’s precepts in the Poetics, I will focus on the contradiction between chapters 13 and 14, in which he prescribes a happy and an unhappy ending. I have concluded that there is little difference between tragedy and melodrama as pertains to the exclusive features of Greek tragedy, but that there is a great difference when focusing on the features proposed by Aristotle, who therefore can not be held responsible for the shifting of tragedy towards melodrama.
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