What is Tragedy according to Aristotle | Plot, Mimesis, Catharsis

In this video, we're exploring Aristotle's definition of tragedy and its key element, plot. We'll examine how plot is created and how it interacts with the concept of mimesis and catharsis. By the end of this video, you'll have a proper understanding about the concept of tragedy and how it works.
If you're interested in Greek drama and its influence on western culture, then this video is for you!
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0:00 Intro
02:12 Aristotle's Definition of Tragedy
06:20 Mimesis and Diegesis
09:43 Catharsis
12:28 Plot and its Structure
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[@ankanbasu6510]

If the death of Susant Singh Rajput is considered as a suicide, I think it can be reenacted as a tragedy following all the key elements of Aristotelian theory of an ideal tragedy. In case of plot there will be an Exposition, Rising action, Climax (where Susant, the protagonist will face so many huge personal problems and have mental dilemma with dramatic soliloquies before taking decision of commiting suicide), Falling action i.e perieteia (where the protagonist will see that all his dreams starting with to be a bright star in the sky of film industry and to lead a very happy life is being finished and destroyed gradually/ where the protagonist will face a reversal of his expectations) and also the Denouement i.e catharsis (where with the final resolution, the pity and fear about the protagonist's plight aroused in the hearts of the audience is purged out as they reach a restive psychological stage.) The enactment of Susant's death will follow the characteristics of Aristotle's ideal concept of tragedy. It will be mimetic (as it will be performed not narrated), serious, lengthy. It will also be the imitation of an action as it may occur in anyone's life. And it must arouse pity and fear among the audience. It will also have hamartia, hubris and anagnorisis.

[@NibblePop]

That is an amazing way to put it Ankan. Thank you so much for this comment.

[@ankanbasu6510]

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[@maithlinair7161]

@@NibblePop but what about the catharsis? how is that taking place here?

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[@DengkieLT]

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[@poddokusumalatha607]

Very good explanation madam.❤

[@bristi2935]

Waiting for next part

[@hafsazafar1190]

Ma'am kindly discuss Aristotle's poetics

[@wanbaumdor256]

This is my first video watching and I have understand everything about tragedy from this video and thank you so much Madam Can't wait for the next video ☺️

[@souravram500]

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[@bipashadas8337]

Thankyou so much for such subtle explanation

[@vinodgadekar198]

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[@LitLifeChronicles]

Ma'am can you please provide the link to the video where you described in detail about tragic hero , hubris , hamartia , etc. ?

[@chaithanyaraghunath]

Hello ma’am, could you please provide the continuation of this topic!

[@vaishalisingh1902]

Ma'am, please make more videos on literary theories....like that of Plato, Horace ,etc. 😊

[@upscaspirants6504]

Thanks you mam for clearing most of doubts regarding tragedy

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[@biswajitganguly4902]

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[@gopinathmandal2904]

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[@K_F_fox]

The difference between Mimesis and Diegesis is critical to understanding Shakespeare's plays. Not to enjoying them, of course, but to understanding them. For example, Sycorax in The Tempest is never actually shown on stage, being the deposed witch-queen of the island that the witch-king Prospero colonized. So everything we "know" about her is purely from the Diegetic perspective of Prospero and Caliban.

[@Salina.K]

I do not think SSR’s death as a Tragedy, since the feeling of catharsis is absent, there’s no sense of tranquility in his death because of the mysterious circumstances around it. the state of anxiety and unanswered questions is ever present,hence, no feeling of relief. our hearts are still disturbed to how and why it led to all of that ending. not to mention he was just 34 y/o at that point, so an incomplete life and it feels like it lacks the “magnitude”. plus, his life was not all “embellished”, he had a humble beginning as a boy from patna and had to face a lot of “discrimination” in the industry?

[@Salina.K]

also, assuming he was mu*dered, he had no choice; no “human action”

[@M.S427]

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[@debarnadatta8991]

Mam, I do have request to make a video on epic poetry ...

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Mam you explain so well

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[@ankursahachoudhury1162]

Ma'am please make a video on Shakespearean Tragedy.

[@NibblePop]

will do soon

[@souravram500]

Mam could you please upload a video on Structuralism. 😍

[@shikharplays6129]

Ma'am can you make the 2 nd part of it. I mean you only said that you are gonna cover the rest of the topics like tragic hero, hubris, hamartia etc. So if you can please do us this favour ma'am. 💙😊❤

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[@payelghosh7934]

Please make more videos on tragedy ma"am

[@Themobong]

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[@simrantyagi286]

Please provide next part of this topic

[@NibblePop]

Not uploaded yet.

[@shengsilchy6760]

Ma'am can you please explain criticism Dryden and TS Eliot please.....

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[@learnsomethingnewwithme5067]

Mam when will you upload the rest of the topics like tragic hero and other topics??

[@bristi2935]

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[@viqarali7120]

Nice video but no video found on the next promised topic in this video

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Can you please make videos on Literary terms and types mam

[@alkayadav5999]

Best explanation ever!! 🙂❤️🤌🏻

[@anushritasalui9446]

Ma'am please make it's second part 🙃

[@nargissud76]

Hello,pls send link to further videos of tragedy like catharsis

[@viqarali7120]

Your next promised videos in this video are not found on KZbin. Where can we get

[@NibblePop]

Anything specific you need?

[@literature7232]

Respected Ma'am, I have got an overall concept of such a vast part in the simplest way possible through this video. However, a question kept on nagging me while you were Explaining the parts of a plot. In case of Wuthering Heights, Heathcliff on getting the news of Catherine getting engaged to Edgar runs away from Wuthering Heights. Is it the climax of the novel? OR At the very end Heathcliff agreeing to the marriage of Cathy and Hareton sets the climax of the novel? It would be really helpful if you could reply to this doubt of mine. 🙇

[@NibblePop]

Technically Wuthering Heights is not drama but fiction. But we can use the moment of Heathcliff's sighting of Catherine's spirit as climactic moment after which the storyline gets into falling action.

[@literature7232]

@@NibblePop Certainly Ma'am. Thank you for taking out time and replying

[@ummeara1361]

Ma'am please upload the next video.

[@meghadobhal5229]

Does anyone know where the video on Hamartia is?

[@taniyaafrin2624]

Where is the next video??

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[@khushiprasad567]

Maam can you please provides the link for rest of the topic

[@ankanbasu6510]

Madam, sometimes after learning minutely about some topic, there are few questions among the students remain unanswered. And sometimes it becomes quite problematic to get and give proper answers through KZbin comments. So mam will you mind if I message you in your wp, as I have arranged your number from your college website, to get the minute and satisfactory answers from the topic your r teaching us in Nibble pop channel?

[@ankanbasu6510]

Mam, did Shakespeare maintain all the Aristotelian concepts of Tragedy while writing his own great tragedies?

[@NibblePop]

No, he improvised and changed many of them and created his own conventions while writing his tragedies. I will make a video about this (Shakespeare's tragedies) very soon.

[@simrantyagi286]

Mam where is the link of second part ? Please tell

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[@srabantisingha6696]

ম্যাডাম ইংরেজি সাহিত্যের student হিসাবে মূলত কোন কোন theory জানা দরকার?? বিশেষ করে স্নাতক বিভাগের...

[@NibblePop]

Thank you for your question Srabanti. For Graduation you need to understand genres like Tragedy, Poetry and Fiction. Important theories include Aristotle's Poetics (his definition of tragedy, mimesis, plot, character), Wordsworth's Preface to Lyrical Ballads (idea of language), Coleridge's theory of Imagination and meter, Eliot's concept of Imagism, Victorian Compromise, Absurd Theatre, Brechtian theatre (basic concept) , Stream of Consciousness technique, colonialism, post colonialism, feminism etc. Understanding theory is good for literature students. But if you study the prescribed texts properly you will automatically understand most of the theories that I have mentioned above. It is more important to relate the theories to the texts.

[@srabantisingha6696]

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[@sukeshigupta321]

Do you provide classes for MA English?

[@ananyabhattacharya81]

I can't find its next episode

[@NibblePop]

Not yet made

[@oindrilabasu3120]

Maam should we consider audio stories as mimesis?

[@NibblePop]

To some extent yes. If they are dramatised as in shrutinatak or gitikavya.

[@oindrilabasu3120]

@@NibblePop Thank you ma'am for clearing my doubt 🙏

[@pranaybhaskar2377]

Ma'am I had a doubt, dramas are non narratives and plays are narratives , then how the plays are considered tragedies according to Aristotle.

[@NibblePop]

Drama is non narrative, it is imitative (mimetic). So it can imitate tragic action

[@pranaybhaskar2377]

@@NibblePop Thanks for your reply ma'am.

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