Literature - Tradegy

    Answer ONE question.   1. “A perfect tragedy should […] imitate actions which excite pity and fear, this being the distinctive mark of tragic imitation.” (Aristotle, Poetics, part XIII) With reference to the above quote, explore the role and function of pity and fear in at least TWO syllabus works that you have encountered so far in this course. OR 2. “Astonishment is the effect of the sublime in its highest degree; its inferior effects are admiration, reverence, and respect. No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as terror; and whatever is terrible with regard to sight, is sublime.” (Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful) With specific reference to at least TWO syllabus works that you have encountered so far in this course, explore the representation of the sublime and its impact on the reader/viewer.