Monday, 17 July 2017

Plato's objection


I am agree with plato's objection to freedom of expression artistic liberty enjoyed by creative writers. As we know that some tv soaps are totally weird and idiotic, by seeing that type of tv soaps we must think that plato's objection is really true. Some types of immoral acts should be totally banned. Plato in his book  The republic says that poets misguide people and they provoke evil ideas in people' s mind. Hence they should be banished from the ideal state. I want to give a recent example from the daily soap' Udaan'. This serial misguide people to do the cruel and illegal things. In this serial the main villain kamal narayan is always involve in conspiracy. He constantly conspired against that small girl chakor. By seeing this act of conspiracy people get ideas about it. This villain always tried to dominate the entire village and all the villagers were his slaves. There is proper name given to these slaves " Bandhua majdur". So people get affected and they also tried to trapped someone and to humiliate. It should be banned  as if i think from plato's point of view.
During my B.A programme, I have studied the great play Oedipus Rex by Sophocles. This play followed aristotle literary tradition. In this tragic play plot is the soul of tragedy. All the events are logically built to form a perfect plot. From birth to death all events are tied together. The decision of Oedipus to find the truth behind the plight of his countrymen leads to his own tragic fall. This eagerness and anxiety of finding every cause makes Oedipus weak. This is the small weakness in a strong character which is called hamartia as described by aristotle. This play also followed the three unities given by aristotle. The unity of time is followed properly as there is no vast gap between two events. Each n every event comes out instantly. Oedipus himself reveal all the events logically. As he solve the riddle of Spinx, sent Creon to the oracle of Delphi to find the truth. After returning from oracle of Delphi Creon reveal that the murderer of  the king Laios responsible for the plight of countrymen. Then Oedipus goes on finding the murderer. At the end after revealation of every  thing Oedipus himself  found as a murderer who kills his father and married to his mother. There is also unity of place, as most of the events takes place only at one place that is Thebes. At last unity of action also followed by the character Oedipus, as the action done by Oedipus is consistent and convincing.
I also studied Shakespeare's play As you like it during my B.A programme. As we know that Shakespeare didn't follow the three unities. So Shakespeare breaks Aristotelian literary tradition. In the play As you like it,there is no unity of place. Some parts of the play enacted i  the forest of Arden,some at far away from forest at palace. There is also no unity of time. Rosalind and Orlando met at palace. Then after a long break they unite at the forest of Arden. But there Rosalind disguised herself as Ganymede. At the end she reveal her identity. So much act playec by her was in her disguised form.  There is no hamartia, no tragic hero in the play, the whole play should be classified as pastoral comedy. There are so many couples in the play. And all get married at the end with the help of God of marriage.

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