Aristotle's Poetics

PART A: What does the word “spectacle” most closely mean as it is used in paragraph 2?

PART A: What does the word “spectacle” most closely mean as it is used in paragraph 2?

On tragedy

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It follows plainly, in the first place, that the change of fortune presented must not be the spectacle of a virtuous man brought from prosperity to adversity: for this moves neither pity nor fear; it merely shocks us.

Tragic hardship or misfortune

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On Tragedy