Celt: A Journal of Culture, English Language Teaching & Literature
Vol 13, No 1: July 2013

THE TRAGIC ELEMENTS IN BRAD SILBERLING'S (2004) LEMONY SNICKET'S A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS

Marcellina Ariska P.N. (an alumnae of the English Department, Faculty of Letters, Soegijapranata Catholic University, whose thesis paper was defended in March 2013)
G.M. Adhyanggono (a full-time lecturer at the English Department, Faculty of Letters, Soegijapranata Catholic University)

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Publish Date
10 Feb 2015

Abstract

Movie is a kind of literary works in addition to novels, poems or songs. There are some genres of movie; one of them is comedy. Black comedy is its sub-genre. Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events is a black comedy movie which includes hamartia, anagnorisis, peripeteia, and catharsis. They are the key elements of Aristotle's theory of tragedy. In this paper, the writer shows the existence of those key elements in the movie. Also, the writer explains the extent of tragic elements in affecting the story of this movie. This paper shows that from the perspective of Aristotle's theory of tragedy, Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events can be viewed as tragedy.

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Celt: A Journal of Culture, English Language Teaching & Literature
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celt

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Universitas Katolik Soegijapranata

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Arts Humanities Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

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Celt: A Journal of Culture, English Language Teaching & Literature is a double-blind peer-reviewed journal, published biannually in the months of July and December with p-ISSN (printed): 1412-3320 & e-ISSN (electronic/online): 2502-4914 It presents articles around the area of culture, English ...