Catharsis

applying Aristotle’s notions of catharsis to Boxing the Compass. According to the Aristotelian notions of catharsis, a successful tragedy would need to impart the feelings of grief and fear onto the audience. Therefore, the Aristotelian notions and application of catharsis are what enable Florian to develop her central theme of ephemerality through the use of an elaborate analogy of mourning the death of one’s mother to mourning the holocene. In Poetics, the term catharsis was originally used as a metaphor

Catharsis is not precisely defined, but it can be identified in tragedy by a release of pent-up emotions in the audience. Typically catharsis occurs after the climax of the drama. The audience by this point has been "greatly moved by pity, fear, and associated emotions, but they are not left emotionally beaten down or dejected. Instead, there may be a feeling almost of exhilaration" (Perrine 1201). Though the fall of a tragic hero is a shocking and disturbing event, it must also bring about a

Religious Symbolism in "A Good Man Is Hard To Find" This paper will present a rhetorical context for the use of violence in the short story, "A Good Man Is Hard to Find," as she presented in her essay "The Element of Suspense." The form of classical tragedy in this story will also be analyzed from the critical theories of Aristotle and Longinus. Tolstoy will be used to examine the use Christian symbolism. Nietzsche will provide a more well-rounded universal conclusion to the uses of tragedy and

What makes a tragedy a tragedy? According to Aristotle, specific criteria exist to define a well-written tragedy, and The Crucible by Arthur Miller is a quality example. In Poetics, Aristotle explains the standards to evaluate works of various authors and describes tragedy as “an imitation of an action that is complete, and whole, and of a certain magnitude” (VII). Tragedies must include a protagonist, referred to as the tragic hero, that encounters a complication and experiences a series of recognitions

she is engaged to his son, Haemon. In this play, both Antigone and Creon could be a considered a tragic hero, but Creon possesses more of the characteristics that Aristotle writes about. Aristotle thought that a tragedy should have catharsis should have catharsis, which was a medical term that he used as a metaphor. In medicine, it meant to bleed out a person. As a literary term, it means to release strong emotions from our soul. The audience feels pity for Creon because of the events at the

that a tragedy “is the imitation in dramatic form of an action that is serious and complete, with incidents arousing pity and fear wherewith it effects a catharsis of such emotions”(1220). In other words, the characters portrayal in the drama brings about some intense emotions of pity or fear from the audience. According to Encarta.com, catharsis is defined as “emotional purification through Greek tragedy: according to Aristotle, a purifying of the emotions that is brought about in the audience of

pride. Peripeteia: The tragic character’s reversal of fortune (; the reversal of fortune itself, not what triggers it). Anagnorisis: When the tragic character makes a critical discovery. Nemesis: The tragic character’s fate that cannot be reversed. Catharsis:

created a “cathartic experience” for the purpose of eliciting “a degree of pity and terror” from the audience, “even though its way of being serious is a comic one” ("Suspense" 802). Elements of foreshadowing, contrived circumstances, and catharsis in “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” followed the classic model of Greek tragedy. The use of foreshadowing conformed to Aristotle’s concept of magnitude. He believed that “beauty is determined by magnitude and order” (Aristotle 47). The epigraph at the

both Aristotle and Shakespeare write with. It possesses a key aspect of a tragedy, which is having a tragic hero that evokes pity and is burdened with a tragic flaw. Moreover, this story follows many of the other elements of a tragic story such as catharsis and the recognition of potential. The common belief of tragic stories is that the protagonist, or tragic hero, must be a man of high status. This is evidentially proven insignificant in the short story “Story of an Hour” as society forgets that

originally intended for Greek plays, but it can be extended to other non-Greek pieces such as novels, short stories, and poetry. The formula contains four key components recommended for tragic tales. The elements of this theory (koros, hubris, ate, and catharsis) can be noted in every tale told by the Monk within The Canterbury Tales, by Geoffrey Chaucer. This relationship will be the main focus of the succeeding composition. Tragic stories can be evaluated in many forms using different methods. One of