Discuss how effectively Sophocles is able to produce feelings of PITY for the Hero and FEAR in the audience through his crafting of character and plot in order to produce Catharsis–the purging of these emotions.
Essay Prompt: Discuss how effectively Sophocles is able to produce feelings of PITY for the Hero and FEAR in the audience through his crafting of character and plot in order to produce Catharsis–the purging of these emotions. What specific qualities, as denoted by Aristotle in his Poetics, does Oedipus reveal that allows us to sympathize […]