“Aristotle’s view on Catharsis”Name: Neelamba. R. Sarvaiya.Roll no:24Sem: 1Paper-3 Literary theory and criticism :Western-1S.B.Gardi English departmentM.K. Bhavnagar University.Year-2013-2014Guided by: Dilip Barad.

Aristotle ‘s view on Catharsis

Catharsis

Aristotle offered a different and quiet original theory of the audience’s response to tragic literature.

About the Catharsis:Aristotle ask the question

Plato gives answer this question.

Aristotle’s view

Plato’s view

Fear…..

Pity with joy…

Definition of Catharsis

According to Aristotle:“Aristotle argues that people feel pleasure when

reading tragic literature not because they want to experience the exact same emotions as the fictional characters. We don’t read or watch a tragedy because we enjoy tears, rage, and manic emotions. The pleasure we take in tragedy is aesthetic. We enjoy the representation of tragic events because it offers an ‘artistic taming of the horrible.”

“Tragic literature arouses a very specific set of emotions-pity and fear-and brings about a healthy and pleasurable experienced called Catharsis.”

• Tragic lierature• Arous

Emotion

Catharsis’s meanings:PurgationClarification‘moderating’ of the passion

Aristotle writes that the function of tragedy is to arouse the emotions of pity and fear, and to affect the Catharsis of these emotions.

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