What is the emotional release felt by the audience of a tragedy?

What is the emotional release felt by the audience of a tragedy?

Catharsis

What is Aristotle’s idea that the audience of a tragedy experiences a purification and purging cleansing of his or her emotions of pity and fear?

Catharsis is a greek word meaning “to purify”. Aristotle describes catharsis as the purge of the pity and fear which are aroused in the viewer of a (good, well composed) tragedy; a purification that leaves him/ her with a satisfying, calm, pleasurable feeling.

When the audience watching a play experiences catharsis that means?

The German dramatist and literary critic Gotthold Lessing (1729–81) held that catharsis converts excess emotions into virtuous dispositions. Other critics see tragedy as a moral lesson in which the fear and pity excited by the tragic hero’s fate serve to warn the spectator not to similarly tempt providence.

When the action makes the audience feel pity for a character?

A quality of a play’s action that stimulates the audience to feel pity for a character. Pathos is always an aspect of tragedy, and may be present in comedy as well. The reversal of the situation in the plot of a tragedy.

What is more important plot or character?

Some people think character is most important, others think plot is the most important, but you really can’t separate the two. Plot is what happens to a character, what a character does, or both. To show who or what a character is, you need to show the character acting, and that is plot.

Why is plot so important?

The plot is, arguably, the most important element of a story. It is literally the sequence of events and, in that sequence, we learn more about the characters, the setting, and the moral of the story. In a way, the plot is the trunk from which all the other elements of a story grow.

What is plot and character?

The plot in a character-driven story is usually simple and often hyper-focused on the internal or interpersonal struggle of the character(s). In a character-driven story, the plot is used to develop the character.

How does setting affect the plot?

Setting is important because it helps us visualize where the characters “live” in the stories we read. It’s also important because it gives us a head start in understanding the plot and making predictions about events in stories.

What are the changes in 21st century literature?

Here’s another difference of 21st century literature, modernists would be more in lines of free verse, no set rhyme scheme, or format unlike conventional writers. Ancient literature, if that’s what you mean by traditional literature, was predominantly oral, didactic and mythical, full of romanticism and idealism.

Why do you think literature is very important in our daily life?

Literature allows a person to step back in time and learn about life on Earth from the ones who walked before us. We can gather a better understanding of culture and have a greater appreciation of them. We learn through the ways history is recorded, in the forms of manuscripts and through speech itself.