1.Medea:In Euripides's play Medea, Jason leaves Medea when Creon, king of Corinth, offers him his daughter, Glauce. The play tells of Medea avenging her husband's betrayal by slaying their children.
2. plot
3.Hubris:one of the tragic flaw.means extreme pride or self-confidence. When it offends the Gods of ancient Greece, it is usually punished. Hubris often indicates a loss of contact with reality and an overestimation of one's own competence, accomplishments or capabilities, especially when the person exhibiting it is in a position of power.
4.Catharsis: meaning "purification" or "cleansing, is the purification and purgation of emotions—especially pity and fear—through art or any extreme change in emotion that results in renewal and restoration. It is a metaphor originally used by Aristotle in the Poetics to describe the effects of tragedy on the spectator.
5.Setting (narrative):place & time.In works of narrative, the literary element setting includes the historical moment in time and geographic location in which a story takes place, and helps initiate the main backdrop and mood for a story.
6.Tragedy: based on human suffering that invokes in its audience an accompanying catharsis or pleasure in the viewing. The term tragedy often refers to a specific tradition of drama that has played a unique and important role historically in the self-definition of Western civilization.
7.Tragic hero(Aristotle's tragic hero):Aristotle suggests that a hero of a tragedy must evoke in the audience a sense of pity or fear, the focus of the tragic hero should not be in the loss of his prosperity.
Aristotle contests that the tragic hero has to be a man “who is not eminently good and just, whose misfortune is brought about not by vice or depravity, but by some error or frailty.
8.Three unities(三一律):action,place,time
9.spec-:to look,ex.spectator(觀眾)
e.g. The most popular spectator sport is football.
10.arch:【建築】把…作成拱形；使彎作弓形。用拱連接，用拱覆蓋。ex. architect
e.g. Today's complex buildings require close teamwork between the architect and the builders.
11.anarchy無政府,無秩序(狀態)；混亂
e.g. He had been swept aside in the whirlwind of reform and anarchy.
12.fallen angels墮落天使
13.inferno地獄
e.g. Rescue workers fought to get to victims inside the inferno.
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