Compare and Contrast between Epic and Tragedy

1. WELCOME
Name:- Sanjaykumar N Jogadiya
Topic:- Compare and Contrast between Epic and
Tragedy
Part:- M.A. Sem-1
RollNo.34, EnrollmentNo.2069108420200017
Email Id: snjogadiya@amail.com
Submitted: Smt. S.B. Gardi Department of English M K
Bhavnagar University.

2. Compare and Contrast between
Epic and Tragedy
 Aristotle about
 Aristotle was born at a Greek colonial town in 384 B.C.
He was a philosopher, moralist, psychologist, logician
and a literary critic. He was the student of philosophic
school of Plato in early age but in his old age he
himself runs the school. His major works are literary
essays, literary dialogues constitution of Athens and
treatises.
 Aristotle’s treatment of the epic is slight as compared
to his treatment of tragedy. But he makes a few
generalStatements, which bring out the salient
features of the epic, and establishes the affinity as well
as the difference between epic and tragedy He died in
322 B.C.

3. The basic difference between
an epic and a tragedy.
 The first difference between an epic and a
tragedy is their length. By its very nature the
tragedy is more concentrated and compact. Its
length is based on the principle that its size is
more limited than its epic.

4. Epic
 The epic is in narrative form.
 The epic is narrated by the author or the character of the
story and there is no action in the epic
 But in the epic there are no singing songs and in the epic the
single meter, the duet of heroic, is used in hexagons.
 Many themes can be presented in the epic because one plot
is better in a disaster but multi plots can be used in the epic.
 It has all the elements of an epic and it also has music and
grandeur, which is lacking epic.
 reading a play without just playing is already very powerful.

5. Tragedy
 The tragedy is in the dramatic form.
 Action in the tragedy.
 Tragic songs are used in the tragedy
 A theme is preferably presented in Tragedy

6. Aristotle’s Conclusion
 Aristotle considers the question of the relative
value of epic and tragedy. In his opinion, though
tragedy has been criticized as Vulgar, this is not
so. “Tragedy, he maintains, is richer in its effects,
adding music and a spectacle to epic resources; it
presents its stories even when read no less vividly
than the epic; it has a strict unity;
 its methods are more concentrated; and it
produces more effectively the requisite emotional
result, the pleasure from the catharsis of pity and
fear.”

7. Resources
 https://docs.google.com/document/d/1X
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 https://www.academia.edu/
 http://nazarbazmi.com/
 And Anyothers

8. Thank you