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Aristotles The Poetics
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In Aristotle's The Poetics, tragedy is stated as being "an imitation not only of a complete action but, also of incidents arousing pity and fear (137)." As Agamemnon, one of the works of Aeschylus, begins, pity is immediately brought into play. Although the audience does not see it, Agamemnon makes ....
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....n of Thyestes being eaten by their father. It also illustrates the magnitude of the tragedy. Fear is induced in the reader when Cassandra describes the scene.
Their hands filled with their own flesh, as food to eat. I see them holding out their inward parts, the vitals, oh pitiful, that meat their father tasted of…. (44)
The children were described as being eaten by "those who were most dear to them (Aeschylus 44)" (their father Thyestes). They were innocent children that loved .... |
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