MATERI MID-TEST DRAMA

DEFITION of DRAMA

Drama is work of literature or composition Which delianates life and human activity by means of presenting various actions of-and dialogues between- a group of characters. (Reaske, 1966:5)

Drama is futhermore designed for
theatrical presentation. We must never forget that drama is designed to be acted on the stage.

Everyone agrees that entertainment is nevertheless one of the ostensible objectives of drama.

GREEK TRAGEDY 1

1.   Aristotele in his book, poetics, thought that a tragedy dramatically imitated an action of high importance

2.   Usually there was to be acentral character with some particular tragic flaw (hamartia). That s a character is led into death,despair, of misery trough some sort of error, either in him self on in his action; the most cited flaw is hubris, which means excessive self-destructive pride.

3.   The basic nidea behid Greek tragedy is that man learns through suffering.

4.   The experience of suffering often leads into new and enlarged awareness of both self and existence.

5.   Aristotle futher explained that tragedy should have a catharsis or purging effects, the audienceshould be purged of both pity and fear by the time te tragedy comes to an end.

6.   By suffering vicariously with the tragic hero,audience has a greather moral awareness and keener self-knowledge.

CHARACTERS

Characters are fictions creations and thus the dramatist and the novelist my both be judget with the regard to their ability in the art of characterization.

In a drama, there is no narration or description: instead all characterization must be presented through dialogue: characters speaks about each other and characters speaks about themselves- particulary of- course about their central emotion, such as love and hate.

MOTIVATION

Most playes have central motives and in general these are giant human emoticons which motivate most people in real life; a fw of the most common are:

1.   Hope for reward

2.   Love

3.   Fear of failure

4.   Religious feelings

5.   Revenge

6.   Greed

7.   Jealously

DRAMATIC CONVENTION

Because  a play is only – and can only be – an “imitation” or representation of an action, an attempted facsimile of real life, the audience or reader, must be willing to accept  certain things in the imagination. 

1.    The playgoer must meet the playwright halfway and accept the passing of time. Just as he must accept  the ease with which the location of the play may switch in a matter of seconds from one place to another.

2.    The audience must also accept the fact that when one character “whispers” to another, it must be aloud enough for everyone in the theatre to hear..

3.    It should also be noted that so-called “asides” which the other characters are not supposed to hear, are obviously delivered in loud enough voices for them to hear.