Tragedy-emphisis on the individual
comedy-emphisis on the community
"A place for everything" Last Act-a stabalization-marriage-validation of fertility
Laws of Comic Form Pease at the end of play-
Aristophanies-usage of old men-mostly stupid regeneration-second childhood
Aristotle 1) People who are worse-comedy -/tragedy-people who are better
2) Comedy -originates from Phallic Procession
This really gets me thinking about Shakespeare. Even though he seems to use these rules in his plays, he also seems to subvert them in a few diffrent ways. Hamlet, probly the most noted tragic character in English literature, is in many ways better than the average man. Yet, he procrastinates. In pretending to go mad he does go mad. According to those old rules, I don't think you're supposed to feel sorry for those tragic characters. I kind of feel sorry for King Lear, or for Hamlet.
The comedy rules seem to fully apply though.
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