LITERATURE QUESTIONS
LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM
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Should arise from the circumstances of the plot itself
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By supernatural machinery
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By narration
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By the choral odes
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Detailed explanation-1: -Aristotle despised episodic plots, plots in which episodes follow one after another in no probable or inevitable sequence. A plots proper ordering–its dramatic unity–makes it whole and complete. If a tragedy has all of these proper elements, the spectators will experience the proper pleasure of tragedy.
Detailed explanation-2: -“Tragedy, ” says Aristotle, “is an imitation [mimēsis] of an action that is serious, complete, and of a certain magnitude…through pity and fear effecting the proper purgation [catharsis] of these emotions.”
Detailed explanation-3: -peripeteia, (Greek: “reversal”) the turning point in a drama after which the plot moves steadily to its denouement. It is discussed by Aristotle in the Poetics as the shift of the tragic protagonist’s fortune from good to bad, which is essential to the plot of a tragedy.
Detailed explanation-4: -A well-formed plot must have a beginning, which is not a necessary consequence of any previous action; a middle, which follows logically from the beginning; and an end, which follows logically from the middle and from which no further action necessarily follows.