Prawfddarllenwyd y dudalen hon
motive; what is motiveless or uncaused is alien to it.—S. H. BUTCHER.
- (b) Action is the differentia of Drama, and must ever remain the primary and controlling principle.—S.H.B.
- (c) The Drama is Will or Emotion in Action.—S.H.B.
- (d) The emotions must harden into will, and will express itself in deed.—S.H.B.
2. Beth ydyw anhepgorion Plot mewn Drama neu Nofel?
B. Cyfieithwch a beirniedwch:
- (a) Plot is artistically the first necessity of the Drama. For the Drama, in its true idea, is a poetical representation of a complete and typical action, whose lines converge on a determined end; which evolves itself out of human emotion and human will in such a manner that action and character are each in turn the outcome of the other.—S.H.B.
- (b) The Dramatic action forms a complete whole; it is a coherent series of events, standing in organic relation to one another and bound together by the law of cause and effect. The internal centre, the pivot round which the whole system turns, is the Plot.—S.H.B.
