o understand these ideas better he defines reversal and recognition for
us. Reversal or peripety is a change from one circumstance to its exact
opposite. Recognition, is a change from ignorance to knowledge leading
either to friendship or hostility depending on whether the character is marked
with good fortune or bad. There is a phrase used by Aristotle in Poetics,
"from the machine," which is basically any implausible way of solving
complications of the plot. "from the machine
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