ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Pathos describes the powerful emotions of pity and fear aroused in the audience of a tragedy. Aristotle names pathos as one of the components of the tragic plot, along with anagnorisis and peripeteia.

Detailed explanation-2: -catharsis, the purification or purgation of the emotions (especially pity and fear) primarily through art. In criticism, catharsis is a metaphor used by Aristotle in the Poetics to describe the effects of true tragedy on the spectator.

Detailed explanation-3: -Pathos means feeling emotion. Catharsis means purging emotions.

Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -: purification or purgation of the emotions (such as pity and fear) primarily through art. : a purification or purgation that brings about spiritual renewal or release from tension. : elimination of a complex by bringing it to consciousness and affording it expression. 3. : purgation.