ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Aristotle believed that in order for a tragedy to really work, it needs to focus on a mostly good character who, through a series of events, is brought low.

Detailed explanation-2: -Aristotle was the first theorist of theatre – so his Poetics is the origin and basis of all subsequent theatre criticism. His Poetics was written in the 4th century BC, some time after 335 BC.

Detailed explanation-3: -A. Preliminary discourse on tragedy, epic poetry, and comedy, as the chief forms of imitative poetry.

Detailed explanation-4: -According to Aristotle, the function of tragedy is to arouse pity and fear in the audience so that we may be purged, or cleansed, of these unsettling emotions. Aristotle’s term for this emotional purging is the Greek word catharsis.