AOT Flashcards
1
Q
What aspects of tragedy relate to tragic victims?
A
- Tragic Victims
- Suffering/ Emptiness/ Sadness/ Misery/ - Pessimism (Belief that this world is as bad as it could be or that evil will ultimately prevail over good)
- Loss/ Death
- Isolation
- Treatment of Women
- Blindness/ Misjudgements
- Anagnorisis
- Arousal of Pity & Fear (Pathos)
- Peripeteia
2
Q
What aspects of tragedy relate to the structure?
A
- Anagnorisis
- Positives emerging
- Changes of fortune
- Tragic endings
- Tragic Magnificence
- Calamity/Magnitude/Catastrophe/Peripeteia
3
Q
What aspects of tragedy relate to the tragic hero?
A
- Pride/Hubris
- Power
- Blindness/misjudgements
- Tragic fall
- Tragic flaws (Hamartia)
- Anagnorisis
- Learning and moral growth
- fate
- changes of fortune
- the gods
- Peripeteia
4
Q
Define catharsis.
A
Process of releasing & providing relief from strong or repressed emotions.
5
Q
Define pessimism.
A
Belief that this world is as bad as it could be or that evil will ultimately prevail over good.
6
Q
Define anagnorisis.
A
Point in which a principal character recognizes or discovers another character’s true identity or the true nature of their own circumstances.
7
Q
Define calamity/ magnitude.
A
The extent of something
8
Q
Define peripeteia.
A
An event causing great, often sudden, damage.
