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What is tragedy? According to aristotle

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According to Aristotle tragedy has six main elements: plot, character, diction, thought, spectacle, and song (music), of which the first two are primary.
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“A tragedy is the imitation of an action that is serious and also, as having magnitude, complete in itself; in appropriate and pleasurable language;... in a dramatic rather than narrative form; with incidents arousing pity and fear, wherewith to accomplish a catharsis of these emotions.”
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