Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 13 AIL 1209 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Catharsis
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The idea
The glossary defines catharsis as the purging of audience emotion in tragedy, the release of emotion and the final feeling of relief. It is a claim about what the form does to the people watching, not about what happens in the plot.
In practice
What it does to the audience.
Where people slip
A claim about effect, not plot.
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