difference between tragedy and epic

1. Topic: Different between Tragedy and Epic
Name: Nikunj Bhatti
Class: M.A. Sem-1
Enrolment No: 14101005
Roll No. : 19
Email id: nikunjbhatti332@gmail.com
Year: 2014/15
Submitted To: Department of English
M.K. Bhav. University

2. What is Tragedy ?
 “Tragedy, then, is an imitation of an action that
is serious, complete, and of a certain magnitude;
in the language embellished with each kind of
artistic ornament ,the several kinds of being found
in separate parts of the play; in the form of action,
not of narrative; through pity and fear effecting
the proper purgation-catharsis of these and
similar emotions.”

3. What is an Epic?
 The epic is a long narrative poem on a serious
subject representing characters of heroic stature in
adventures of great historical, legendary, or
religious significance.
 Epic = Heroic Drama + Long Narrative

4. Length
Plot
Marvelous
and
irrational
Subject
matter
Metre Important points
of
Epic and Tragedy

5. Length

6. Unity of Time, Place, Action
Action
Place
Time

7. Epic has Hexameter.
Tragedy possesses many meters like
Iambic pentameter, trochaic, tetrameter.
Metre

8.  It deals with the fortune of people
 It presents the life of an individual
Subject matter
Marvelous and irrational
( Low of probability and necessity )

9. Plot
• The plot of Epic consists of plots of many tragedies.
• Plot of epic and tragedy may have similarity in
complexity, but epic’s plot is more episodic then then
tragedy.
• Epic is the story of the past.
• The drama is a representation of a story in the present.