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Anagnorisis

Published on Nov 22, 2015

Define Anagnorisis

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Anagnorisis

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Recognition

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The moment of tragic recognition in which the protagonist realizes some important fact or insight, especially a truth about himself, human nature.

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This idea functioned in Aristotle's book Poetics to describe the tragedy when the protagonist realizes something important that is tragic.

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