Aristotle and Oedipus

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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