Catharsis functions to:

1. Generate emotion in an audience so that the people may then be exploited by their rulers.
2. Get audiences to exercise their reason while watching a play.
3. Get audiences to love the gods and the state.
4. Generate emotions in an audience so that those emotions may then be purged.


answer: 4

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