Tragedy Lessons from Aristotle. Episode 3 | 11m 55s Video has Closed Captions | CC. Let's look at Aristotle's rules for theater, and how they can be used for catharsis. Aired 02/23/2018 | Rating NR ...

Aristotle considers plot to be the most important element of a tragedy. It refers to the arrangement of events or incidents that make up the story. According to Aristotle, a well-constructed plot ...

In tragedy and epic poetry, people are represented as better than in real life, in comedy, as worse. The inferior characters of comedy should not be bad in the full sense but merely ridiculous. 2.

Aristotle’s argument, at its core, is that tragedy should be mimetic (meaning imitative or reflective) to action and life. Mimesis is a foundational concept of the Poetics.

Aristotle’s original text comprised close studies of both tragedy and comedy, with asides on the “Iliad,” “Odyssey” and other examples of epic poetry (a form he judged inferior to tragedy).