For this week's assignment, we were asked to watch the film The Wrong Trousers. Created by Nick Park and Aardman Animations, The Wrong Trousers was the second short film featuring characters Wallace and Gromit released in the year of 1993. As part of this week's assignment we were asked to breakdown this short Claymation film into the categories of Aristotle's Poetics such as: defining the hero and their tragic flaw, the turning point in their life, their quest, resolution to their problems, and the definition of denouement as related to the film. .
Opening with the celebration of Gromit's birthday, Wallace gives him the gift of "Techno Trousers." Possessing an endless amount of properties, there were no other robotic pants like them. After gifting Gromit these techno trousers, Wallace decides to reduce the increasing monthly debt by renting out a room. Their new house tenant, Feathers McGraw, quickly takes an interest in the new technological gadget, seeing as Gromit doesn't like them for the original intended walks with Wallace. Immediately after moving in, Feathers takes a dislike to Gromit, while he and Wallace seem to become best buddies. Therefore, Gromit decides to run away from home. The morning after Gromit leaves, Wallace is in a predicament. After having the techno trousers become re-wired Wallace is forced to make several jaunts across town, and during one of the jaunts he ran into Gromit. Gromit had come to the conclusion that Wallace's new tenant wasn't who he appeared to be after seeing a wanted poster. McGraw planned to tire out Wallace as quickly as he possibly could because he had ulterior motives. It turns out Feathers McGraw was actually a conniving chicken, by disguising his identity and pretending to be an innocent penguin. He was a well known thief, who later on that night snuck an exhausted Wallace into a museum to pull off a diamond heist. Using the feet of the techno trousers to climb the ceiling and enter the building upside down, the claw from Wallace's helmet successfully clutched the diamond.
Indeed, imitation is what defines a poet: "he is a poet because of imitation and he imitates actions" (Poetics, IX, p82). ... Their differing views on mimesis, as outlined principally in The Republic and The Poetics, were thus partly a consequence of their differences in their ontological and epistemological views of the world. ...
There is no poetic quality to the narrative elements in the story. ... Aristotle's rules on reversal do not apply to a lot of modern dramas, including "Blood Relations", because so many of them deal with that grey area where in it is hard to determine who is in the right and who is in the wrong. ... Poetics. ... The definition of tragedy in an excerpt from Aristotle's "Poetics" is the re-creation, complete within itself, of an important moral action. ... Aristotle's attention throughout most of his Poetics is directed towards the requirements and expectations of the plot....
There are many settings used to drive the comedy in 'The History Boys' and help nurture it. The settings that have a direct impact are the time the play was performed, the date the play was set, the fact the play is set in a school and the geographical setting. The fact the play is set in a sc...
Alfred Prufrock" has a very unusual poetic structure. ... As he grows old and his hair grays, he both sees and ignores the futility of wearing the bottoms of his trousers rolled, and combing hair over his balding head. ... The lines "I grow old I grow old I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled" involves both a declaration of having aged, and a future action. ...
Book of Job vs Aristotle's Poetics Aristotle was, arguably, the greatest single thinker that has ever walked the earth. His thoughts and writings covered all aspects of life. So important were his works that to not know them was, until not too long ago, considered uncivilized. He composed a set o...
When it came to dressing, he knew what was right and what was wrong. ... The Colonel never thought twice about coming out in trousers and a button up. ... The girls dressed in plain colored dresses and dark stockings, while the boys wore button shirts with slacks or trousers. ...
In Aristotle's "Poetics," we are introduced to the philosophers thoughts and writings on the varying types of art forms including poetry, dance, sculpture and some forms of music. ... In Poetics, Aristotle claims that poetry illuminates the truth about the human condition. ...
Starched clothing is known for making clothing look more formal, which is interesting to note because Santiago is the one who wears unstarched white linen clothing and José Dias, a dependant, is the one who wears starched white trousers. ... Along with the trousers, José Dias always wears his trouserstraps, which are according to Bento, out of style. The trouserstraps suggest the exact opposite of that of the trousers. The straps supporting the trousers, literally, suggest that José Dias does not only depend on Bento's family, but also contributes to the family in any...
Postmodern Poetics Postmodern literally refers to the period after twentieth century modernism involving "complex understandings of language, philosophical thought, human subjectivity and political theory."" ...