LITERATURE QUESTIONS
LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM
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Question
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Fear
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Tragic flaw
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Unmerited misfortune
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Likeness
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Detailed explanation-1: -The feelings they arouse are subordinated to another effect. Aristotle begins by saying that tragedy arouses pity and fear in such a way as to culminate in a cleansing of those passions, the famous catharsis. The word is used by Aristotle only the once, in his preliminary definition of tragedy.
Detailed explanation-2: -Along with fear, pity is one of the emotions aroused in the audience of a tragedy. We respond with pity, Aristotle seems to suggest, when we as members of the audience identify with the tragic hero’s suffering. Pity and fear are “purged” in the process of catharsis.
Detailed explanation-3: -What we pity is stated clearly in the definition. All unpleasant and painful things excite pity if they tend to destroy pain and annihilate; and all such evils as are due to chance, if they are serious.
Detailed explanation-4: -Oedipus achieves catharsis by blinding himself when he discovers that he has fulfilled the fate that he was avoiding. This moves the audience to feel pity and filers for him.