1. Name: Joshi Deepti M
Roll no: 08
Sem: 1
Paper no :03
Name: literary Criticism
Topic: Aristotle’s six
parts of tragedy

2. Introduction
’Tragedy is form of drama
based on human suffering.
which invokes in its audience an
accompanying catharsis or
pleasure in the viewing

3. Aristotle’s definition of Tragedy
‘’Tragedy, then is an imitation of an action
that is serious complete, and of a certain
magnitude; in language embellished with
each kind of artistic ornament, the several
kinds being found in separate parts of the
play; in the form of action, not of
narrative;throughly pity and fear effecting
the proper purgation of these emotions’’

4. Aristotle’s six parts of tragedy
Plot
it involves ‘Action’

5. Character
’’The plot then is the first
‘
principle, and as if it were
the soul of a tragedy,
character holds the
second…..Thus tragedy is
the imitation of an action
and of the agents mainly
with the view of the action’’

6. Thought
Diction
Song & spectacle