CATHARSISThe paper argues that catharsis in Aristotle's Poetics is a two-pronged process, which applies both to the construction of the mythos by the poet and its reception by the audience. Catharsis may plausibly be taken as the poet's distillation of events that constitute a mythos so as ...
Notes 1. Unravelling the contested termcatharsisis beyond the scope of the present discussion, but Wiles (99–100) offers a succinct introduction to the issue. 2. In thePoeticsitself, Aristotle praises what seems to be Euripides’ playIphigeniain Taurisfor the success of its dramatic reversal (...
The play has the perfect Aristotelian tragic plot consisting of paripeteia, anagnorisis and catastrophe; it has the perfect tragic character that suffers from happiness to misery due to hamartia (tragic flaw) and the play evokes pity and fear that produces the tragic effect, catharsis (a purging...