peripeteia

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A sudden reversal of fortune as a plot point in Classical tragedy.

   “If we recoil with the consternation of surprise at such a conclusion, it is no defense to invoke as parallel the peripeteia by which Euripides in his Ion leads us to expect one ending yet effects another.”

2. isim Any sudden change in circumstances; a crisis.

   “Once more I was a man in a myth, incapable of understanding it, but somehow aware that understanding it meant it must continue, however sinister its peripeteia.”

3. isim A turning point in psychosocial development.