... where Aristotle's conditions come into the play The first condition that I spotted was hubris it appears in the line spoken by Oedipus: "My children, believe me when I say I know everything you are suffering-. He is referring to the unfortunate members of Thebes who suffer from the plague outside of the palace the plague that the gods placed on the land because of the uncleanness of the city i.e. Oedipus killing the king [his farther] on the way to Thebes, solving the riddle of the ... sphinx when arriving at Thebes and then being offered the hand of the queen [his mother]. However he d...

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... , likewise establishing a distinct link with the reader in accepting one of his weaknesses is Cleopatra. The striking imagery Shakespeare uses to describe Cleopatra and Antony's relationship – we are reminded of the image of the fish caught on her hook, and are in no way ... the rift between the two characters widens, the readers are expected to respond sympathetically to the tragic downfall of Antony. We see a tragic flaw in Antony where he struggles with reason and emotion, saying he will do the honourable thing, then the next he's contemplating returning to Egypt. We can see by the e...

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... of the play; in the form of action , not of narrative: through pity and fear effecting proper purgation of these emotions. " (Aristotle Chap.VI) Aristotle goes on to examine what he thought were the most important elements in a tragedy, "it is not the function of the poet to relate what has happened, but what may happen, what is possible according to the law of probability or necessity. "(Aristotle Chap.VI) This idea of the law of ... no blood was spilled on stage in Greek tragedy. In fact the tragedy was in the description, the dialogue of the characters. The only way that, as an audienc...

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