In the documentary Salam, what are the elements of tragedy that one can observe as described by Aristotle
- Musleh Saadi
- Aug 6
- 2 min read
Characterization provides base of the plot. Characters can be myriad in their beliefs, appearances and habits. They can be akin to actual people or completely fictitious. He is an ordinary man who aspires to become in terms of courage, morality, and strength. It is only such an admirable character who will be able to get pity and fear from the audiences.
I observe one of the element of tragedy “ Character” from which (six elements of Tragedy by Aristotle) because I feel and observe through many words and incidents in the Salam’s documentary describe their character, work, with work Salam face’s religious(identity) and other problems, research, (acception and etc. but everything that relate with their work be relate with their character. According to my observation this one the tragedy element in Salam’s documentary(Story) ,the elements according to aristotle.
“The film reveals the extraordinary life of the charismatic Abdus Salam, in all its color, vitality and tragedy. It is the story of a man who traversed two worlds with ease: one of science and religion, modernity and tradition, war and peace and obscurity and celebrity. He came from humble beginnings, growing up in a small brick house with a large family of eleven. While Salam's legacy looms large in the world of physics, he is largely forgotten in Pakistan because of his faith. Children do not read about him and he is still vilified and maligned by right wing clerics for being a "Qadiani"-a derogatory term for someone belonging to the Ahmadiyya community (as non-Muslim Pakistani) because Ahmadiyya community sect Salam belonged to was declared non-Muslim by an Act of Parliament during Zulfikar Ali Bhutto’s era (in 1974). walking up to receive a Noble Prize in Physics, becoming the first Pakistani to be awarded this as honour. Through combining interviews and pictures with his family pictures from his childhood that’s proof that he was most loved with his all siblings. (How Adul Salam’s name came in the dream of his father narrates by Salam’s grandson. Salam was an undeniably remarkable man. At 17 he wrote his first scientific paper; at 23 he graduated from St. John’s college at Cambridge with double first class as honours in mathematics and physics, Ferthermore, a degree he completed in two years instead of the usual three, at 24 he completed a Ph.D. in theoretical physics; at 28 he became a lecturer in mathematics and Fellow of St. John’s College.
(“During Abdul Salam’s speech at the Nobel prize’s ceremony, Salam quoted many verses of the Quran. When Ahmadis were declared non-Muslims by the state, he wrote in his diary: ‘Declared non-Muslim, can’t cope.’ Fiercely patriotic, Salam stayed loyal to Pakistan throughout his life but was faced with one of the most difficult choices. When Ahmadis were declared heretics by Pakistan because the only country in the world to have a constitutional ruling on the parameters of religion than Salam said, “it became clear to me that I must either leave my country or leave physics,” and in what was a devastating loss for Pakistan, he left the country.
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