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«Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.»
Author: Michelangelo | About: Beauty | Keywords: purgation, superfluities, superfluity
«Tragedy is thus a representation of an action that is worth serious attention, complete in itself and of some amplitude... by means of pity and fear bringing about the purgation of such emotions.»
Author: Aristotle (Philosopher, Physician, Scientist) | Keywords: amplitude, purgation, representation
«A tragedy is the imitation of an action that is serious, and also, as having magnitude, complete in itself . . . with incidents arousing pity and terror, with which to accomplish its purgation of these emotions.»
Author: Aristotle (Philosopher, Physician, Scientist) | Keywords: arousing, imitation, incident, incidents, purgation, terror, The Incident
«I'm a word man. See, there's this theory about the nature of tragedy, that Aristotle didn't mean catharsis for the audience but a purgation of emotions for the actors them selves. The audience is just a witness to the event taking place on stage.»
Author: Jim Morrison (Poet, Singer) | Keywords: actors, Aristotle, audience, catharsis, emotions, event, Just a, On Stage, purgation, selves, stage, taking place, theory, tragedy, witness, witnessing
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