Question

The purpose of a tragedy is to evoke and then relieve or cleanse the audience's emotions.

TrueFalse

Answer 1

True.

Step-by-step explanation:

According to Aristotle, in his Poetics, the statement above is true (do notice that other thinkers, like Nietzsche, Brecht or Artaud, maintain very different points of view that are too varied to be touched upon in this brief space). According to Aristotle, tragedy is the representation on stage of certain events that a character must undergo and that the audience passively, but with a high degree of anguish, must endure so that, through catharsis, the audience can be enlightened by the nature of these unfortunate or fateful events.

Answer 2

i think that statement is true. The purpose of a tragedy is indeed to evoke then relieve or cleanse the audiences emotions. By including a tragedy, the author will make the readers to be emotionally invested with the victim/character and this will eventually enchance the reading experience as a whole