pg 24: the only time i am free and enjoying myself is when i'm teaching - i love the analysis of technique

pg 26 - built a whole ass house with "close friend" james carville anyway meisner gay

the foundation of acting is the reality of doing

climax?

hopefully there's some way that the structure can be tied to the cycle of abuse, bc that would be a really fucking good essay

they fucked

does she see something?

:/ rising action: she goes back w him

• things to figure out: is this the first time he hit her?

hm

rising action: stanley beats stella

lmaoooo blanche has game

asshole

im shook

????

rising action to do w baby

Tennessee and his cats

oof

yooo what does THAT mean

rising action

but is it tho?

messy child, blessed baby - lots of stuff going on infantilizing Stella

blinche

predict it's already in disrepair

Desire leading to Death leading to Heaven - theme material?

name bc this is the inciting incident? that Blanche arrives - on this streetcar named Desire?

unsure what this exchange is

small traveling bag/suitcase

kind of like Greek Heaven

Greek philosopher, theologian, and religious critic

I love this; the insight that there are at least three different versions of any reality being discussed

More evidence of Aristotle's biological classification infatuation. I'd want to see his phylogeny of words and their classifications

This is very relatable where ever adaptions occur; how many good books/media have gotten relatively awful movie adaptations, mostly because the second writer tries to cram 20 hours worth of content into 2?

a good use of deus ex machina according to Aristotle

I think this story is referring to Penelope's test in which her suitors had to try and 1) string Odysseus' bow and then 2) shoot an arrow through 12 axe heads. I don't understand how this is an example of a false inference, however. Help?

I like this condemnation of shock value used as replacement for a good plot. It's like how horror movies use jump scares instead of building tension and fear in other ways

JustAristotleThings

"because of this" or "after this"

an Athenian statesman and historical figure often satirized in the day and beyond - even appears in Chaucer's Cantebury Tales as a military man of Socratic values

Zeuxis was known for his realism while Polygnotus' focus was individual figures and charming execution rather than technical skill

" Thought seems to denote the intellectual qualities of an agent while character seems to denote the moral qualities of an agent." - Sparknotes

^could not for the life of my decipher without ol' Sparky

meaning the physical things that actors must engage with and are visible to the audience rather than the equipment itself be flashy

I like how even as we read the document that serves as the foundation of western drama, Aristotle is stressing that these conventions he's observing are built upon each other. Nothing comes from nowhere (unless it's from Jakku).

Sparknotes clarified the language of this for me: we like seeing fake dead bodies (how many procedural crime dramas are airing on TV this season?) but we really don't like seeing real ones.

The Dorian dialect of Greek (Doric) is considered part of the Northwestern Greek dialects. The Doric region lies north of Athens, accounting for how the dialectical study was useful to them in claiming the origins of Tragedy.

The Dorians were one of the main Greek ethnic groups involved in the Peloponnesian War along with the Ionians.

Fliotsos connects Aristotle's work with classification in the natural world as groundwork for his aim to "observe and classify dramatic language" as he might with biological/zoological subjects. The classification of writing into a pseudo-phylogenetic tree starts here with the dichotomy of Poetry and Not Poetry with the defining factor being presence of memisis.