Lysistrata： a comedy by Aristophanes. Originally performed in classical Athens in 411 BC, it is a comic account of one woman's extraordinary mission to end the Peloponnesian War. Lysistrata persuades the women of Greece to withhold sexual privileges from their husbands and lovers as a means of forcing the men to negotiate peace—a strategy, however, that inflames the battle between the sexes.
masturbation=self-abuse：Excitation of one's own or another's genital organs, usually to orgasm, by manual contact or means other than sexual intercourse.
Sexual abstinence=sexual restraint：It is the practice of refraining from some or all aspects of sexual activity for medical, psychological, legal, social, financial, philosophical, moral or religious reasons.
B.C.：stands for “before Christ”<=>AD or A.D.stands for"anno Domini"which means in the year of the Lord.
Catharsis：the purification and purgation of emotions—especially pity and fear—through art or any extreme change in emotion that results in renewal and restoration.
Mimesis is a critical and philosophical term that carries a wide range of meanings, which include imitation, representation, mimicry, imitatio, receptivity, nonsensuous similarity, the act of resembling, the act of expression, and the presentation of the self.
Aristotle thought of drama as being "an imitation of an action" and of tragedy as "falling from a higher to a lower estate" and so being removed to a less ideal situation in more tragic circumstances than before. He posited the characters in tragedy as being better than the average human being, and those of comedy as being worse.
The classical unities=Aristotelian unities=three unities：rules for drama derived from a passage in Aristotle's Poetics. In their neoclassical form they are as follows:
1.unity of action: a play should have one action that it follows, with minimal subplots.
2.unity of time: the action in a play should occur over a period of no more than 24 hours.
3.unity of place: a play should exist in a single physical space and should not attempt to compress geography, nor should the stage represent more than one place.
Hubris： extreme pride or self-confidence
Examples of hubris are often found in fiction, most famously in Paradise Lost: John Milton's depiction of the biblical Lucifer who attempts to wrest power from God, is cast down to hell.
POV：Point of view or narrative mode, the perspective of the narrative voice; the pronoun used in narration
episodic：一集一集的
Omniscience：Mainly in religion, is the capacity to know everything that there is to know.
In particular, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam believe that there is a divine being who is omniscient.
* Hamartia is first described in the subject of literary criticism by Aristotle in his Poetics. The source of hamartia is at the juncture between Character and the character's actions or behaviors as outlined by Aristotle.
How to Take Great Notes
3-step method:
1. Don’t write facts, write conclusions
2. Use color
3. Review
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