Assignment 2
The play
LIB200.6502
Professor Regan
Jason Chester
9/27/09
Jason Chester
Professor Regan
LIB200.6502
27 September 2009
Assignement 2
“The Play”
“Californication”
Aristotle observed society. A student of Plato, He became a
philosopher who developed a model for plays called poetics.
These poetics are used by many whether they know it or not. It
is the general understanding of how a theatrical work of art or
even a story can be told and written. Aside from the poetics
there are other terms. The terms that will be discussed in the
following are episode which are a number of loosely connected
events that continue a series. The protagonist also known as the
main character of the story, most likely the hero. The
deuteragonist whom are the actor(s) next important to the
protagonist much like the supporting actor(s). The work of art I
will be using to show examples of this is Showtime’s television
series Californication. This show can be described as a New
Comedy which stories are written more about the citizens other
than the Old Comedy which were satirical works about politics
and politicians. (Dictionary/infoplease.com)
Californication is very intelligently written show. It
follows the main character Hank Moody who is played by actor
David Duchovony. He is the protagonist as he plays a writer, who
struggles with growing up, being a father, and a bachelor all
while trying to figure out how to be the perfect man for his
true love, Karen his love interest and also the mother of his
daughter who is played by Natasha McElhone. She is and his
daughter played by Madelaine Martin are the Deuteragonists.
(www.Californication.com)They are constantly by Hanks side, as
he some how plays his own antagonist, as he gets himself into
trouble. This entire series which are broken up into episodes,
following the New Comedy format,New Comedy accurately reflects
the disillusioned spirit and moral ambiguity of the bourgeois
class of this period. (Britannica online encyclopedia) This type
show is very easily to relate to as the characters all have
traits of everyday period. Whether or not the everyday person
would participate in the events as follow is questionable, but
many people love to live their lives through these people.
Californication is a great show, with sharp lines every two
minutes within the dialogues. The writing is original and highly
entertaining. Although the format and the structure is ancient
making it not as intimidating to be as original, as a person who
plans to write and produce my own work someday.
Having an idea
of how it comes together by following the structure of the
poetics makes everything seem a lot less complicated. Although
the material must be creative and entertaining, knowing that
they are set designs to follow, making the process predictable
but able to be played with is encouraging.
Work Cited
www.Ebscohost.com
www.Califonication.com
www.Brittanica online encyclopedia.com
www.Dictionary/infoplease.com