Aristotle

Aristotle was a repected man that wrote many theories. The effects of Aristotle’s work still remain in a lot of our industries today, e.g. film making industry. There are two ways of looking at Aritotle’s theories. On the other hand, I think that he had a major impact in the beginning when they started studying narrative even though it doesn’t apply as much as it did a long time ago. He started us thinking in a structural manner and gave us a way of looking at things for what they are. He gave us this way of thinking that we can apply when looking at certain things.

The two things that I decided to use are ‘Need For Speed; Most Wanted(NFS)” and “Transformers”. In the game NFS the plot of this game is that in order to get your car back from Razor you have to work your way up a list of the best drivers in town by beating them in order to race Razor. The story is a man named Razor robbed your car and you have to get it back. This is “Reversal” as Aristotle talks about, when the hero’s (you) fortune goes from good to bad. This could fall under Aristotle’s purification theory, not exactly but it is a journey of self discovery and a realisation that you can be the best driver in the game.

In the film Transformers the story is that there enormous robots on earth looking for a cube and a boy named sam has it. Whereas the plot of the film is that there is a cube on earth that these massive transforming robots are looking for. There is good robots and their leader is called optimus prime, they are trying to protect sam from the bad robots, until he destroy’s it. In my opinion this film relates a lot back to Aristotle’s purification theory, again; it is not exactly as Aristotle wrote it but I think this because Sam has to rise above himself to desroy this cube.