单选题
The author refers to the example of Oedipus the King (line 15) most likely in order to
- (A) suggest that Aristotle did not consider Greek tragedy which involved accidental crimes to be truly sound in dramatic terms
- (B) argue that exceptions existed in Greek tragedy to Aristotle's principle that intentional crimes were more impressive
- (C) suggest that protagonists who committed accidental crimes in Greek tragedies tended to be better received than intentional criminals
- (D) to suggest that the spectator of a tragedy featuring an accidental crime would himself feel pity and terror
- (E) illustrate an application of Aristotle's theory of character to a specific dramatic example