ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -peripeteia -uh-puh-TEE-uh noun. : a sudden or unexpected reversal of circumstances or situation especially in a literary work.

Detailed explanation-3: -Examples Of Peripeteia Examples include the death of King Creon’s son Haemon at his father’s hands after he opposes him, and Oedipus’ discovery that he killed his own father and married his mother. Peripeteia is a literary term that relates to how the plot of a story turns.

Detailed explanation-4: -Anagnorisis correlates with a character’s new knowledge. Peripeteia: By contrast, peripeteia deals with a character’s new circumstances. In some cases, peripeteia follows anagnorisis directly when a character’s fortune changes because of their new knowledge, as is the case in Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex.

Detailed explanation-5: -Peripeteia is the reversal from one state of affairs to its opposite. Some element in the plot effects a reversal, so that the hero who thought he was in good shape suddenly finds that all is lost, or vice versa. Anagnorisis is a change from ignorance to knowledge.