ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -“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.” Ambiguous means may be employed, Aristotle maintains in contrast to Plato, to a virtuous and purifying end.

Detailed explanation-2: -In his analysis, Aristotle addresses the elements of plot, character, diction, thought, spectacle, and song; he also discusses Deus ex Machina, dénouement, and metaphor.

Detailed explanation-3: -Excerpts from Aristotle’s Poetics Ch. 6 A tragedy is an imitation of an action that is serious and has a wholeness in its extent, in language that is pleasing (though in distinct ways in its different parts), enacted rather than narrated, culminating, by means of pity and fear, in the cleansing of these passions …