The two kinds of Dramas were a tragedy and a comedy. A tragedy was a serious play about with themes like love, hate, war, or betrayal. They had featured a main character, or tragic hero who was an important person and often gifted with extraordinary abilities, but also a weakness. Their weakness was a tragic flaw and it normally caused the hero’s downfall. Most of the tie the flaw was hubris, or excessive pride. The other type of drama was a comedy, and a comedy is a play with scenes filled with clumsy, or embarrassing situations and crude humor. Playwrights made fun of politics, important people, and popular ideas or subjects during the present time. I was in a play during middle school and like Greek plays we had colorful costumes, masks, and sets made by students, teachers, and adult volunteers. Wealthy citizens took on the cost of producing the plays, but in my play our non extremely wealthy drama teacher produced they play. Unlike in Greece we had the same teacher put on t...
What were Aristotle's, Plato's, and Socrates's best and worst ideas and what effects do they have on modern society? 1st Paragraph- Introduce Plato, Socrates and Aristotle. Talk about Socrates main subject of asking questions to provoke thinking, and his arrogance. Plato as a great political theorist and his flawed view of the ideal society. Finally Aristotle's connections with science, and his ideas of the souls. 2nd paragraph- Plato, his good ideas of importance of reason, the allegory of the cave, How the forms pushed people to be the best of themselves, and his thought that women were equal able to rule in his perfect society, how he was a founder of political science and a great political theorist. For his bad ideas you would say how he thought a women's womb was a living thing, women were less important then children, His three sections of the perfect society and the noble lie told to get everyone to believe in their sections and how the world was compo...
Sophists and other philosophers like Socrates might have started questioning the world because they saw all these bad things going on around them. They saw the generals put to death for terrible reasons, and they were put to death in a horrible painful way. The philosophers might have had a gut feeling that something was wrong. The society was once great, but how did it come to this. Their consciences may have been telling them not to follow the pack because what they are doing is morally wrong. Aslo these philosophers and sophists started popping up right after their democracy had fallen apart. After the majority of Athens loved democracy and thought it was perfect it's flaws started shinning through and it fell apart. If the normal way of law was wrong before what makes the new way right, or what ensures the new way of life will not fall apart later? The philosophers wanted to find the truth in order to make a better society that will not come crumbling down because of the death...
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