Robert Rossen’s 1961 Film, The Hustler: Can it be Viewed as an Aristotelian Tragedy?

Robert Rossen 's 1961 film "The Hustler" is a movie that is said to be classified as a tragedy. But this movie can be compared with the tragedy in Aristotle's view. Whether the movie meets Aristotle's tragedy's requirement. Or the result of an ignorant, ignorant critic. Aristotle came up with a list of essential requirements called "tragedy". "The tragedy is affected by consideration and is concerned about catharsis of this feeling." It means that people should feel compassion and fear feelings in tragedy. After seeing

It is a matter whether a tragedy or not. According to Aristotle's view on the tragedy, is "death of salesman" properly marked as a tragedy? To decide this, we need to consider Aristotle's point of view along with the drama to decide whether the play fulfills the explanation of Aristotle's tragic view. It is clear that the author does not intend to produce Aristotle's tragedy, as the play does not meet Aristotle's standards at all in the process of reading "death of salesman".

Aristotle's tragedy comes from Greek "tragedy model" (384-322 BC) invented by Aristotle, and his view on Aristotle's tragedy is stated in his famous poetic chapter 6. This special reading involves evoking certain emotions called compassion and fear of catharsis, as well as the fall of the royal hero due to personality flaws. As father and ruler, Leah is blind and irresponsible. He is crazy about the appearance, and he will be pleased to abandon all responsibility as long as he maintains his position. As soon as we started the game we knew how wrong the rear values ​​were, but we became increasingly conscious of the regret of this old man.

According to Aristotle's definition, tragedy is a hero who ends with a fatal flaw. Dr. Foster is a typical Aristotle's tragedy, a very important person who is proud to sell his soul to the devil - a scholar. The tragic downfall of the hero is when I signed a contract with a devil. There is also catharsis in the meaning of Aristotle, the audience feel compassion and fear, regret the tragedy of Faust, and fear to put oneself in the position of Faust. Faust can repent before the end of play, but he does not want to do; he misleads himself: