Comments Posted By A. Lafauce
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Rick:
Sad that no one picked up on your "All My Sons" analogy, paralleling Greek drama makes watching television drama all the more interesting. Of course when you say that common themes are used throughout literary history you are referring to the seven deadly sins, i.e. Greed, Lust, Envy,Gluttony, Lust,Anger and sloth. however in Greek drama any character committing any of the above deadly sins resulted in his death. Oedipus being the obvious example. Modern day drama softens the punishment a tad but still requires scourging if not death.
Comment Posted By A. Lafauce On 30.01.2007 @ 20:41
Its fun to make the observations and guessing the outcome based on the rules of drama, and judge the writer's literary capabilities set down by Aristotle, as well.
In yesterday's episode, its not the estranged familial relationship that bears punishing, or the selling of nukes its the greed that transends all iniquity. Hence in Graem's case, we are able to predict with some certainty that he will or rather must die, no moral judgement need be made. Now that being said, we can predict with the same certainty that the other characters will suffer the same end. Chloe for her lust will (if not already) be punished. In the end the audience will have learned that evil must be punished, even if the audience just says, "Tsk, Tsk.
