Aristotle's Literary Arraignment Poetics
Movies are a part of regular everyday life. There are different types of movies as well. Comedies, romance, thriller, drama; each of them hold a distinct felling about them. Why is that? There is someone who wrote a lot on how to get that to be real… Aristotle wrote about many things, one of the most prized literary works is his work on poetics. He talks about all the things that make a good play, good. How to capture the people’s attention, and keep them guessing. A few of the things Aristotle wrote about in his literary arraignment Poetics, are the importance of a protagonist, having a fall of the protagonist, and the antagonist.
In Poetics by Aristotle it mentions the importance of having a protagonist, in the movie Ender’s Game it shows this quality very well. In this movie, there is a young kid who has a lot expected of him, who is being tested and threatened by everyone older than him. People connect to him because everyone has felt that way… been picked on just because of one way or another. It also shows how much responsibility can hurt. He is constantly stressing about how he can make it higher in his class, and how he can survive the training. Everyone has felt this, through …show more content…
In the beginning of the movie, the humans are all fighting to save their world from aliens, and so it seems pretty easy to say that the intruders are the enemy. However, as the movie goes along, it reveals that they, the humans, were the terrorists. They were the ones who destroyed the peaceful civilians. However, most people don’t see the importance of having an antagonist… For example, if there was no enemy in this movie, then there would be no movie. It would be a movie on how Ender spent his time everyday doing nothing. The whole story line is about how they need to save the world from a huge threat on human
In Poetics by Aristotle it mentions the importance of having a protagonist, in the movie Ender’s Game it shows this quality very well. In this movie, there is a young kid who has a lot expected of him, who is being tested and threatened by everyone older than him. People connect to him because everyone has felt that way… been picked on just because of one way or another. It also shows how much responsibility can hurt. He is constantly stressing about how he can make it higher in his class, and how he can survive the training. Everyone has felt this, through …show more content…
In the beginning of the movie, the humans are all fighting to save their world from aliens, and so it seems pretty easy to say that the intruders are the enemy. However, as the movie goes along, it reveals that they, the humans, were the terrorists. They were the ones who destroyed the peaceful civilians. However, most people don’t see the importance of having an antagonist… For example, if there was no enemy in this movie, then there would be no movie. It would be a movie on how Ender spent his time everyday doing nothing. The whole story line is about how they need to save the world from a huge threat on human