THE WASPS
¿Which kind of author lies
upon The wasps?
A comic, cynical
and carefree author.
¿Did he have in mind any
reader?
Yes, Cleon and the
greek population.
¿Did he set a specific
contract on it?
Yes, to be funny but also
to send a message to the rulers of the ancient Greece.
QUESTIONS ABOUT SOURCES
¿Is History the real and
direct source?
Yes because of Cleon, but
it also contains fiction.
¿How far personal affairs
influence the Plot?
A lot, because it revolves
around Cleon and how he did while being the representative in Athenians
politics.
¿Is this a theater-play
about Justice?
Yes, there´s a judgment
about the house-dog.
¿Why talking and writing
about Justice through comedy?
To spare the damage that
talking about justice could cause in that specific time. For more information you can visit the next link http://www.scielo.org.ar/scielo.php?pid=S1851-17242012000100004&script=sci_arttext&tlng=en
QUESTIONS ABOUT ANECDOTE
¿Is a love-hate relation
between father and son? or
¿Is a justice-injustice
one?
Both, in one part ot shows
the developent in the relation between Philocleon and Bdelucleon, how a father
starts accepting the point of view of his son, besides it showa how the son
protects his drunk father; it also shows the justice-injustice, because they
stablish a law-court at home.
¿How worth is Justice in
greek society?
A lot, it was one of the
essencials of the Greek culture.
QUESTIONS ABOUT STRUCTURE
¿Is that kind of comedy structure made for play performance?
Yes, even though no one
wanted to participate in the play because of Cleon.
¿How facts are put to deal kindly with argument and mise-en-scene?
By mixing the
structure and stablishing most parts of the play on the same places.
QUESTIONS ABOUT PLOT
As a contemporary reader:
¿Can I find an example of
Aristohane’s comedy in current Comedy?
Yes, Animal Farm, Catch me
if you can, etc.
¿How important is irony
since then?
A lot, since then we
experience more of this genere, it´s also a subtly irony.
¿Should I consider
Aristohane’s comedy a fixed model?
Yes, he uses the love-hate
and justice-injustice model.
As an author:
¿Can it make rise
attention in contemporary audience?
Yes, if we adapted it to
the actual era we can improve a rise from the audience.
¿Could it be modified to
get expectations of contemporary audience?
Yes, we could change the
names and the time.
QUESTIONS ABOUT ACTION
¿Did the author
had another choice to write down his ideas on Plot?
We don´t know, it was up
to him.
¿Is climax a paradigm to
be broken?
Yes, since it is the point
of greatest intensity of the play.
¿How should climatic
points be understood from the reader’s view?
By showing them off on an
explicit way, marking the start, climax and end of the play.
QUESTIONS ABOUT TIME
¿Is there any Narrative
Technique I/You can identify for time developing?
Prolepsis.
¿Why to use that kind in
his work, by Aristophanes?
To catch the atention of
the reader.
QUESTIONS ABOUT SPACE
¿Does Athens represent the
whole Greece?
Only the rich,
aristocrathic part of Greece.
¿Might Aristophanes
foreshadow the present world?
Kind of, is not
Aristophanes but the evolution of the world.
¿May we have a glance of
the ancient Greece through The wasps?
Yes, because we get a
glimpse of the justice system.
QUESTIONS ABOUT NARRATOR
¿What kind of narrator is
the Chorus?
The one that comment on
the action of the play but is not part of it.
¿Why did Chorus
dissapeared in Theater plays?
Because it didn´t play a
part on the plays.
QUESTIONS ABOUT CHARACTERS
¿What kind of character is
the protagonist?
Is the central person in a
story, here it is Philocleon, because the play is about how he faces his son on
the subject about justice.
¿What kind of character is
the principals?
The son, the play talks
about his relation with his dad.
¿What kind of character is
the antagonist?
Is an obstacle that the
protagonist must overcome.
QUESTIONS ABOUT EXPRESSION FORMS
¿How dialogues are performed?
In different forms,
they can be dialogue, monologue, soliloquy, stream of counciousness; in this
play we get to see a dialogue between the father an the son.
¿Do dialogues truly belong to the character which realize them?
Yes, we can all say the
dialogue that belongs to the character but we are just quoting them; the
essence of the chacracter is still there.
QUESTIONS ABOUT SYMBOLS
¿What does represent
father?
Authority, craziness,
search justice.
¿What does represent son?
Kindness, consciousness,
justice for everyone.
¿What does represent dogs?
The balance of justice
QUESTIONS ABOUT MEANING OF
THE WORK
¿Is The wasps important as
classical Literature work?
Yes, it´s a comedy in
which a lot of actual comedies are based on.
¿Is It worth of universal
recognition?¿Why?
Yes, it´s the base of
comical classical literature it also represents the zenith of the Old
Comedy tradition.
QUESTIONS ABOUT IDEAS
¿Which kind of idea shows the highest level among them?
Politics, society, and
ethic.
¿Why has the author done it so?
To express his point of
view about Cleon.
¿What kind of thinking is for expressing ideas?
Symbolic, by using
metaphores about the ruler at the time.
¿How characters counciousness is made out in the drama?
By making the judgments.
QUESTIONS ABOUT RECEPTION
OF THE WORK
¿How different was meaning in his age and today’s?
Not so different, nowdays
we can see some examples of this.
¿Are you shocked with Aristophanes world?
No, it´s a very common
world nowdays, but back then it was shocking.
¿Are remaining values from the past in our present world?
Some of them, it depends
on the culture, age, place and society.
REFERENCIAS
Roldán, B. (2018). Apuntes
de clase Cultura Literaria; Universidad Panamericana Campus Guadalajara.
Aristófanes. (2003). Las
once comedias. México. Editorial Porrúa, Col. Sepan cuantos.
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