‘To spread the light some have to fight in the shadows.’
A purifying or figurative clensing of the emotions espescially pity and fear.
A release of emotion tension that leads to an enlightening and refreshing of the mind, body, soul.
The deliberate and consious expulsion of negativity.
‘God, it was good to let go, let the tight mask fall off, and the bewildered, chaotic fragments pour out. It was the purge, the catharsis.’
‘A tragedy is the imitation of an action that is serious and also, as having magnitude, complete in itself . . . with incidents arousing pity and fear, wherewith to accomplish its catharsis of such emotions.’