Select a film, short story, or drama that is worthy of your time and analysis and, using Aristotle?s ideas of good dramatic storytelling from the lecture, analyze your story in a 750 word paper in APA format.

Which elements are obviously connected to Aristotle?s aesthetic principles? The elements to examine include the following:

1. Is the story believable?
2. Is the action complete?
3. Does the action make sense according to the law of probability or necessity?
4. Is the action serious?
5. Does the action have a good cause-effect chain that increases complication and rising action?
6. Is the story complex enough to hold the audience?s attention?
7. Is there a clear universal theme?
8. Is the plot unified?
9. Does the story contain dramatic irony?
10. Does the story contain an epiphany, or a sudden reversal of fortune?
11. Is the hero or heroine a character with whom the audience can identify?

Limit your discussion to three or four principles that best illustrate Aristotle?s ideas. Do not try to analyze everything.

Select a film, short story, or drama that is worthy of your time and analysis and, using Aristotle?s ideas of good dramatic storytelling from the lecture, analyze your story in a 750 word paper in APA format.

Which elements are obviously connected to Aristotle?s aesthetic principles? The elements to examine include the following:

1. Is the story believable?
2. Is the action complete?
3. Does the action make sense according to the law of probability or necessity?
4. Is the action serious?
5. Does the action have a good cause-effect chain that increases complication and rising action?
6. Is the story complex enough to hold the audience?s attention?
7. Is there a clear universal theme?
8. Is the plot unified?
9. Does the story contain dramatic irony?
10. Does the story contain an epiphany, or a sudden reversal of fortune?
11. Is the hero or heroine a character with whom the audience can identify?

Limit your discussion to three or four principles that best illustrate Aristotle?s ideas. Do not try to analyze everything.

Essay Topics

The following topics will appear on the exam in question form. You can answer any one of the seven essays.

The reign of Louis XIV.

The political and religious conflicts in England from the English Civil War through the Glorious Revolution.

The manner in which the Scientific Revolution changed concepts of the universe, nature, and God.

The philosophical ideas of the Enlightenment or the goals of enlightened despotism.

The origins and legacy of the French Revolution.

The positive and negative consequences of the Industrial Revolution.

The outlook of any two of the following ideologies: conservatism, romanticism, nationalism, liberalism, or socialism.

Identifications

Eight of the following twenty identifications will appear on the exam. You will define and discuss the significance of four of the eight terms on the exam.

Versailles                                                 Pugachev’s Rebellion

Mercantilism                                             Slave Trade

Glorious Revolution                                   Storming of the Bastille

St. Petersburg                                          Robespierre

Nicolaus Copernicus                                   Waterloo

Francis Bacon                                            Steam Engine

Sir Isaac Newton                                        Luddites

Voltaire                                                     Adam Smith

Jean-Jacques Rousseau                              Thomas Malthus

Joseph II                                                   Karl Marx