FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
MACBETH
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Comedy
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Tragedy
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History
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None of the above
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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 is a literary term referring to an unexpected reversal of circumstances or a sudden change of fortune in a story. Storytellers use this literary device in the form of plot twists and key turning points that lead a story to its resolution, or denouement.
Detailed explanation-3: -Recognition and reversal combined produce either good or bad fortune as an outcome, and they involve fear and pity and thus produce catharsis, which Aristotle argues is the true aim of tragedy.
Detailed explanation-4: -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.