ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -The most powerful elements of emotional interest in tragedy, according to Aristotle, are reversal of intention or situation (peripeteia) and recognition scenes (anagnōrisis), and each is most effective when it is coincident with the other.

Detailed explanation-2: -According to Aristotle, the plot is the underlying principle of a tragedy, as it were; the very soul of it, Plot gives meaning, vigour and vitality to the play.

Detailed explanation-3: -According to Aristotle, tragedy has six main elements: plot, character, diction, thought, spectacle (scenic effect), and song (music), of which the first two are primary.

Detailed explanation-4: -Aristotle stresses that the central aim of tragedy is not to depict human personalities, but rather to represent human action. Character is second in importance to plot in Aristotle’s hierarchical organization of these elements; representation of character should always enhance the plot.

Detailed explanation-5: -Aristotle concludes that the best kind of plot involves the misfortune of someone who is neither particularly good nor particularly bad and whose downfall does not result from some unpleasantness or vice, but rather from hamartia-an error in judgment.