This document is a student paper about catharsis in tragedy. It provides the student's identifying information and defines catharsis as the purification and purgation of emotions, particularly pity and fear, through art or extreme changes in emotion. It states that catharsis is important in tragedy as it refers to purging emotions and sometimes renewal through pity, sorrow, sympathy or laughter for the character or audience. It gives examples of how Shakespeare's tragedies like Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet leave the audience feeling purged of emotions by the end.

1. Catharsis in Tragedy
 Name : Nasim R.Gaha
 Roll no : 30
 Enrollment no :- 2069108420190014
 M.A. :- Sem – 1
 Year :- 2018-2020
 Email-id : gahanasim786@gmail.com
 Paper no : 3 ( Literary Theory and Criticism-
Western Poetics-1)
 Submitted to : Smt.S.B.Gardi Department Of
English, Maharaja Krishanakumarsinhji
Bhavanagar University.

2. Catharsis in Tragedy

3. WHATISCATHARSIS
Catharsis is the purification and purgation of emotions – particularly pity and fear –
though art or any extreme change in emotion that results in renewal and
restoration.
Catharsis is the use of strong feeling in literature to engage the reader in a type of
emotional purification
Catharsis is a Greek word

4. DEFINITION OF TRAGEDY
 Tragedy is an imitation of an action
That is serious complete and of certain magnitude through pity and
fear effecting the proper purgation of emotion

5.  WHY CATHARSIS IS IMPORTANT IN A TRAGEDY
Catharsis refers to a purging of emotions, purification and sometimes a
renewal resulting from pity , sorrow , sympathy or even laughter.
Chatharsis applies to the experience of a character or the experience of
the audience.

6. Catharsis in Shakespeare's
tragedy
 Tragedies like Romeo and Juliet,
and Hamlet and Oedipus the king are
high stakes and emotionally powerful
enough to leave the audience feeling
purged of those emotions by the end of
the play .

7. ROMEO AND JULIET
At the end of Romeo and Juliet, the two lovers have sought
release from their “ crossed” love by killing themselves. The
audience experiences catharsis when the two families bury the
hat Chet .

8. HAMLET AND OEDIPUS
Hamlet and Oedipus the king are high stakes and emotionally
Powerful enough to leave the audience feeling purged of those
emotions by the end oath play