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Aristotle's poetic

Q. 1 How far do you agree with Plato’s objection to freedom of expression and artistic liberty enjoyed by creative writers? Name the texts (novels, plays, poems, movies, TV soaps etc which can be rightfully objected and banned with reference to Plato’s objections)
 First of all creative writing means when you see something like flowers and you create your imagination about that flowers at that time we can say that this is creative writing. One of the most popular type of creative writing is storytelling and as we know that there are many elements of creative writing like characters development , plot development, dialogue etc. The best creative writers are William Shakespeare, leo Tolstoy, Edgar Allen poe etc. Plato is also known as creative writer. Plato believed that " truth of philosophy was more important than the pleasure of poetry". And yes i am agree with Plato’s Objection to freedom of expression and artistic liberty enjoyed by crietive writers. As we know that according to him all art are imitative. So i have one novel in TY BA, "hairy ape" by eugene o'neill. In the novel, o 'neill represents the reality of society and this novel is about the negative effects of industrialisation. So that we can say that o' neill is great creative writer.
Q. 2 With reference to the literary texts you have studied during B.A. programme, write brief note on the texts which followed Aristotelian literary tradition (i.e. his concept of tragedy, catharsis, tragic hero with hamartia etc). 
As we know that aristotalian thought holds that poetry is an imitation of what is possible in real life and that tragedy, by imitation of a serious action cast in dramatic form. I have one play which is based on aristotalian literary tradition that is " All my sons". In the play journeys the key contact of Catharsis through the intricate character of joe keller. Our tragic hero and his hubris flaw. And also the concept of hamartia At the end of the act one becomes pivotal in the role of experiencing catharsis . In the last there is a phone call from George, anne's brother. Chris tell joe the news of his engagement to anne. But joe is preoccupied with the phone call. He is afraid , George will want to open up his father's case again.

Q. 3 With reference to the literary texts you have studies during B.A. programme, write brief note on the texts which did NOT follow Aristotelian literary tradition. (i.e. his concept of tragedy, catharsis, tragic hero with hamartia etc.).
 In my BA program i have studied novel "kim" by Rudyard kipling. It is followe the aristotalian rules of tragedy in few things like, according to Aristotle the hero of the tragedy have belong to the upper class, and good looking,but in "kim" the hero or protagonist kim belongs to lawer class. He is the orphaned son of an irish soldier.

Q. 4 Have you studied any tragedies during B.A. programme? Who was/were the tragic protagonist/s in those tragedies? What was their ‘hamartia’?
 In my BA program i have studied "ghashiram kotwal" by vijay Tendulkar. It is indeed a great tragedy. Protagonist or the central character is ghashiram a poor brahmin from kanuaj who had come to pune for better life. But here he faces humiliations and the city was ruled by nana who was full of lust. In the play ghashiram uses his own daughter lalita gauri as a bait. From here he started his journey as a kotwal. He has hamartia like ambition of power, revenge It follows the rules of aristotalian tragedy and in this play we have tragic hero who is not thoroughly bad or fully good.
Q. 5 Did the ‘Plot’ of those tragedies follow necessary rules and regulations proposed by Aristotle? (Like chain of cause and effect, principle of probability and necessity, harmonious arrangement of incidents, complete, certain magnitude, unity of action etc)
Yes, most probably all tragedies follow aristotalian rules and regulation for example ' Hart of darkness', 'othello', ' helmet' etc. In othello we can see the element of jealousy in othello. Othello follow the rules of aristotalian tragedy accept few of are not follow but most of follow by Shakespeare and also by other creative writers.

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