Quotes About Tragedy By Aristotle

#1. Tragedy, however, is an imitation not only of a complete action, but also of incidents arousing pity and fear.

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#2. A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.

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#3. The church's or Christian group's methods are as important as its message.

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#4. Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.

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#5. The best tragedies are conflicts between a hero and his destiny.

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#6. And by this very difference tragedy stands apart in relation to comedy, for the latter intends to imitate those who are worse, and the former better, than people are now.

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#7. If you read proverbs, you will find answers to every puzzle.

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#8. The true end of tragedy is to purify the passions.

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#9. A tragedy is that moment where the hero comes face to face with his true identity.

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#10. The plot, then, is the first principle, and, as it were, the soul of a tragedy; Character holds the second place.

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#11. Aristotle wrote that the human soul is purged by the fear and compassion that tragedy evokes.

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#12. Tragedy is an imitation not of men but of a life, an action

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#13. A tragedy is the imitation of an action that is serious and also, as having magnitude, complete in itself ... with incidents arousing pity and fear, wherewith to accomplish its catharsis of such emotions.

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#14. Even the sparrows on the house-tops are objects of suspicion.

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#16. The stagflation of the 1970s blessed us with damaging wage and price controls and the utterly counterintuitive supply-side notion - famously drawn on a napkin - that cutting taxes would lead to higher tax revenues.

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#17. Tragedy is an imitation not just of a complete action, but of events that evoke pity and fear.

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#19. The same distinction marks off Tragedy from Comedy; for Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life. III

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#20. Definition of tragedy: A hero destroyed by the excess of his virtues

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#21. Catharsis. Revenge cleanses. Aristotle wrote that the human soul is purged by the fear and compassion that tragedy evokes. It's a frightening thought that we fulfil the soul's innermost desire through the tragedy of revenge, isn't it.

Jo Nesbo