1. Name - Parmar Shubhda A.
Paper - 3
Roll no-35
Topic – Different between tragedy and epic
Submitted to –Smt.S.B gardi
Department of English
M k bhavnagar university

2.  What is tragedy ?
“Tragedy is a form of drama on human
suffering that invokes in its audience an
accompanying catharsis or pleasure in
viewing.”

3.  What is Epic ?
“Epic or heroic poem is applied to a work
that meets at least the following criteria it is
a long verse narrative on a serious subject ,
told in a formal and elevated style, and
centered on a heroic or quasi – divine
figure on whose action depends the fate of
a tribe, a nation , or the human race.”

4. Different between Tragedy and Epic
Tragedy
 Large audience
Melodramatic
performance
Epic
More cultivated

5. Tragedy
 Various serval
meters like ,imabic,
trochaic
 Only one plot
Epic
 Only one meter
like, hexameter
 Many plots

6. Tragedy
Epic
Time
Unity
Place
Time
No unity
Action
Place
Action

7. Tragedy
Complete with
certain magnitude
Follow law of cause
and effect
Epic
 Vast in its
magnitude
Such absurdity
passes unnoticed

8. Tragedy
 More precisely
 Presents only that
part of the story
Epic
 Events, incidents
,characters are treated
on grand scale
 It can relate a
number of incidents

9. Thank you

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