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What is the emotional release felt by the audience of a tragedy

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an emotion release felt by the audience of a tragedy is called Catharsis! 
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Catharsis.

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As it first was analyzed by Aristotle in his Poetics, catharsis is the emotional, spiritual and transcendent feeling of release that comes from witnessing tragic events and its consequences for a hero on stage. Catharsis is, then, one of the main elements of any tragedy and it is what makes a tragedy edifying for the audience rather than merely presenting a form of spectacle or entertainment.

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