1. Oedipus
Aristotle also points out terms such as catharsis, which can be said that is the purification of one's soul. He argues in his Poetics that catharsis is achieved through emotions of pity or fear, which is created in the audience as they witness the tragedy of a character who suffers unjustly, but is not entirely innocent. ... Such elements are: plot, character, language, thought, spectacle, and melody. ... (Sophocles 1293) and that blindness does not necessarily have to be physical as we can se when he says, "If I had sight, I know not with what eyes I would have looked" (Sophocl...
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