Tuesday, February 7, 2017

Las avispas


Questions about the author:
¿Which kind of author lies upon The wasps?
A person who likes comedy, that can be sarcastic and funny at the same time. This books reflects the kind of man the author is

¿Did he have in mind any reader?
The greek public

¿Did he set a specific contract on it?
Yes, he set it to be funny

Questions about Sources:
¿Is History the real and direct source?
Yes because Cleon did exists, and he is the one the characters fall into

¿How far personal affairs influence the Plot?
Maybe it plays a little bit of inffluence from the author

¿Is this a theater-play about Justice?
Yes because there is judgment

¿Why talking and writing about Justice through comedy?
Because the answers from the justice  are the right ones, and he wanted people to know that the justice from the greek at the time were good

Questions about anecdote:
¿Is a love-hate relation between father and son? Or
Yes, because the father doesn’t know how to really love his son, and at the same time it could have been easy for the father to get the son to leave the house and never come back

¿Is a justice-injustice one?
Yes, because like it is a love-hate it is justice-injustice one

¿How worth is Justice in greek society?
Is really worth it in the greek society

Questions about structure:
¿Is that kind of comedy structure made for  play performance?
Yes, because the structure is divided by 3

¿How facts are put to deal kindly with argument and mise-en-scene?
Very neatly so they can be understanded



Questions about Plot:

As a contemporary reader:
¿Can I find an example of Aristohanes comedy in current Comedy?
Yes, there’s always a love-hate relationship in current comedy

¿How important is irony since then?
It has been a very kind of subtly irony, so they can laugh about somebody else and the public ask themselves if they are really laughing or not

¿Should I consider Aristohanes comedy a fixed model?
Yes, because he demostrated the actions of a character

As an author:
¿Can it make rise atention in contemporary audience?
No, it’s not the kind of comedy the people right now see

¿Coul it be modified to get expectations of contemporary audience?
Yes

Questions about Action:
¿Did author have another choice to write down his ideas on Plot?
Maybe, it was up to him to make changes

¿Is climax a paradigm to be broken?
No

¿How should climatic points be understood from the readers view?
To be understood as a relation of father and son

Questions about Time:
¿Is there any Narrative Technique I/You can identify for time developing?
Analepsis y prolepsis

¿Why to use that kind in his work, by Aristophanes?
Because he wanted it to be about the greek public

Questions about Space:
¿Does Athens represent the whole Greece?
They describe it as if it was

¿Might Aristophanes foreshadow the present world?
We are going to foreshadow his work, and we are going to understand it because we are humans

¿May we have a glance of the ancient Greece through The wasps ?
Yes, mostly through the justice system


Questions about Narrator:
¿What kind of narrator is the Chorus?
Point of view

¿Why did Chorus dissapeared in Theater plays?
Because for the modern theather what the characters say is what matters, there shouldn’t be others

Questions about Characters:
¿What kind of character is the protagonist?
The father, is and unfair and crazy person

¿What kind of character is the principals?
The son, he really thinks things through


Questions about Expression forms:
¿How dialogues are performed?
As they are performed in the book

¿Do dialogues truly belong to the character which realize them?
Yes, because they really act as it

Questions about Ideas:
¿Which kind of idea shows the highest level among them?
Social and politics

¿Why has the author done it so?
To let the public know about how it was ruled at the time

¿What kind of thinking is for expressing ideas?
Symbolic

¿How characters counciousness is made out in the drama?
Is made about hate and love

Questions about symbols:
¿What does represent father?
His authority and craziness

¿What does represent son?
The new generation of youth, and that he was very kind

¿What does represent dogs?
The wrongly acused of society

Questions about Meaning of the work:
¿Is The wasps important as classical Literature work?
Yes

¿Is It worth of universal recognition?
 ¿Why?
Because is the base to ger to know the classical literature, and it represents the values of the past, present and future to come

Questions about Reception of the work:
¿How different was meaning in his age and todays?
 Very different, in today's age people think very different 

¿Are you shocked with Aristophanes world?
 Kind of, there are still people who are like that 

¿Are remaining values from the past in our present world?
In some places, families and different cultures 


(Roldan, Blas.2017.Apuntes de la clase cultura literaria.Universidad Panamericana) 

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