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Oedipus

Oedipus

Oedipus is a prime example of a tragidy, according to
Aristotle’s definition in the “poetics”. Aristotle’s Poetics is considered the
first work of literary criticism in our tradition. The couple of pages in the
book mainly describe tragedy from Aristotle’s point of view. He defines
tragedy as being an  imitation of an action that is a whole and complete in
itself and of a certain  magnitude. Aristotle also points out terms such as
catharsis, which can be said that is the purification of one’s soul. He argues in
his Poetics that  catharsis is achieved through emotions of pity or fear, which
is created in the audience as they witness the tragedy of a character who
suffers unjustly, but is not entirely innocent. Then he moves on to describing
the main elements of tragedy. Such elements are: plot, character, language,
thought, spectacle, and melody. Then he classifies these in three parts, the
media, the manner and the objects. The language and melody constitute the
“media”, in which they effect the imitation. Then there is the spectacle, which
is the “manner”, and the remaining three, the plot, character and thought are
the “objects” that are  imitated. Aristotle considers the plot to be the most
important of these
 elements. He describes the plot as not

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