![]() ![]() Aristotle acknowledged that Tragedy, which is a form of mimetic art, does surely causes emotions such as pity and terror. In his famous work “Poetics”, Aristotle employs Plato’s concept as an escape and produces his own theory of Catharsis. Aristotle’s concept of CatharsisĪmong the factors why Plato criticized mimetic poetry on the grounds that it evoked emotions and therefore repressed the working of logic and reason. ![]() He produces an ideal world that is an imitation of the actual world. The poet emulates the present nature but he does not merely produce a copy of that nature. Therefore, poetic imitation is not just a photographic representation. Thus the poet constructs or creates something that formerly did not happen. For example, history gives us all the knowledge that has already occurred or happened, but a poet tells us what might occur or happen. However, Aristotle distinguishes between different types of knowledge. Aristotle states that every branch of knowledge is a product of imitation because as human beings we all gather or acquire knowledge through imitation. ![]()
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