Catharsis refers to an experience at the end of a tragedy in which the audience feels
A) a heightened sense of pity,fear,and violence that they carry deep within themselves after the play is over.
B) a purgation of the feelings of pity and fear and a cleansing of emotions.
C) a freeing of uncontrolled,repressed Oedipal desires to kill one parent and sexually unite with the other.
D) all is put back into balance according to the gods.
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