Um Trágico Final Feliz
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https://doi.org/10.14195/2182-8830_1-2_7Keywords:
Aristotle, Poetics, Happy End, Tragedy, Melodrama, FilmAbstract
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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