| We got the start from the tragic protagonist of "a good person", combing the meaning of the original translation (English), summed up the several translation of the "a good person" in the "Poetics":good appearance, the noble identity, morality and goodpurpose.The Greek vocabularies whose meaning is a good person are not a single.And this reflects the characteristics of the protagonists in Aristotelian tragedy are not for a single request, but to highlight some good quality flexibility.Combined with Aristotle’s philosophy to introduce the concept of "natural", the "a good person" is able to reflect the best attributes of people-rational. Plato also requires the protagonists of tragedy to reflect his "Idea", but "Idea" is different from the "natural" of Aristotle.these differences are reflected in their attitude about the real world, but also reflected in their theory about tragic protagonist.Plato wanted the tragic figures to reflect the idea Straightforward, without too much reference to real people, only use the idea of "good" as the standards. Aristotle knew reality is the only way leading to the "natural". And ration is the most important object of the protagonist of tragedy to performance, but the expression of characters is multi-dimensional.The key of differences between them is whether accept "contradiction" exists in a personinconsistencies in the identity. Plato couldn’t allow contradiction in the identity that his ideal tragic figure are much typical. Aristotle’s who allowed the performance figures diversity, character have many similarities with typicality character:the dialectical view of the character, the figures reflect the nature of reality synoptically.Aristotle’s theory of the tragic figure has the restriction of the times, just reflect the the philosophy of that era and literary concepts of Aristotle. He didn’t attach the importance of environment, but also reflected some understanding predictability. The flourish of typical characters in literary history and the typical theoretical research in the literary history can prove some relations between them. |
