Aristotle's definition of catharsis was specific to the experience that audiences have watching theater, or to people reading literature. According to that definition, only audience members and readers can experience catharsis—and not the actors or characters themselves. However, it's sometimes the ...
The aim of this essay is to analyze the relationship between tragedy and its audience and how according to Aristotle‚ the play is supposed to achieve its final cause. Through the essay i am going to examine the proper pleasure of tragedy by looking at Oedipus tragedy from Sophocles.The sto...
When it comes to dealing effectively with anger, catharsis is not merely a matter of "letting off steam," though this can be beneficial in treatment when done verbally as opposed to physically. But theverbalization must be directly connected to and rooted in the true source of theanger. Is ...
2.A purifying or figurative cleansing of the emotions, especially pity and fear, described by Aristotle as an effect of tragic drama on its audience. 3.A release of emotional tension, as after an overwhelming experience, that restores or refreshes the spirit. ...
The 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 to clear...
Aristotle instead argued that, through catharsis, people emerged purified and less likely to act extremely or immorally. It’s interesting to note that this debate, which is ancient, is still being fought on many levels in modern society, and that emotional identification with characters or plot ...
This middle way, or mean, is a core foundational aspect of virtue to Aristotle. As he states in the Ethics: [V]irtue must have the quality of aiming at the intermediate. I mean moral virtue; for it is this that is concerned with passions and actions, and in these there is excess,...
” Aristotle considered the plot to be the soul of a tragedy, withcharacterin second place. The goal of tragedy is not suffering but the knowledge that issues from it, as thedenouementissues from a plot. The most powerful elements of emotional interest in tragedy, according to Aristotle, are...
Tragedy - Hegel, Catharsis, Aristotle: George Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, the immensely influential German philosopher, in his Aesthetics (1820–29), proposed that the sufferings of the tragic hero are merely a means of reconciling opposing moral claims. Th
In Oedipus the King, which Aristotle cited as the model of Classical tragedy, the irony of the protagonist’s situation is evident to the spectator. In Hamlet, however, according to the American philosopher George Santayana, writing in 1908, it is the secret ironies, half-lights, and self-co...