Monday, December 6, 2010

Question 432: Found neither in Giza nor Ibiza

n his Poetics the Greek philosopher Aristotle put forth the idea "A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end". This three-part view of a plot structure (with a beginning, middle, and end – technically, the protasis, epitasis, and catastrophe, was how most dramas were modelled until 1863, when __X__ wrote a book called Die Technik des Dramas.

In this book, he put forth a view which has become the crux of comedies and a tradition in theater. Building upon Aristotle's views, he made a pyramid like structure as shown in the picture.

Question
1) Id X
2) Fill in the blanks in the pyramid (bottom left, top, bottom right)

Sorry im posting after so long.
Most of my questions are being put into the Christ quiz.



5 comments:

Nagaratna said...

X - Gustav Freytag
Blanks - Exposition; Climax; Catastrophe (De`noument)

Priyank Mehta said...

X is Gustav Freytag
Exposition, climax, denouement

SyntaXerroR said...

x is gustav freytag
the blanks are exposition , climax and resolution(Dénouement)

Gaurav Radhakrishnan said...

X is Gustav Freytag.
The three blanks are Exposition, Climax and Denouement, in that order.

Siddarth Pai said...

Answer:

Nagaratna