You will race-swap for that part of Dazaralor.
It’s not you bashing elsa’s face in.
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Why would I? She’s a cartoon…
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It’s okay, the rest of us will beat Jaina just a little bit harder just for you.
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Something called a Catharsis dear sir, it is what one feels for a character in any artistic medium, whether it be: a book, game, movie etc… relatable characters are what give these mediums their value, what one FEELs for a character. How do you read a book? Or watch a movie?
As the saying goes: “Art imitates life, and life, imitates art.”
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You are thinking of empathy. Catharsis is what I feel smacking Jaina with a sword after listen to her whine about stuff that happened in Cataclysm for seven years.
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I’m pretty sure the term our Theatre Appreciation teacher and text book in college used was CATHARSIS sir… lest you care to argue with a College educator… (in art the term refers to strong emotional connections an audience or even just an audience member feels about a character or story, coined by Aristotle as part of his philosophy on art and particularly books or theatre)
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Look at the definition of the word and realize you are both right. Context is everything.
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I mean, even experts make mistakes and confuse words. I am totally down to debate the English language:
ca·thar·sis
noun
the process of releasing, and thereby providing relief from, strong or repressed emotions.
Where as what you are referring to sounds more like -
em·pa·thy
noun
the ability to understand and share the feelings of another.
There is no debate sir, I am using Catharsis correctly…
Catharsis: * Catharsis is a term in dramatic art that describes the effect of tragedy (or comedy and quite possibly other artistic forms) principally on the audience (although some have speculated on characters in the drama as well).
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Maybe if you were talking about people gaining emotional satisfaction via the experience of a fictional characters experiences, but just referring to the feeling one has towards another person (be they real or fictional) then no, you aren’t.
Although this isn’t taking into account you may be referring to a theater setting? In which case using the words wrong may be intentional.
Is there a new raid we’re talking about here or is the OP stuck in content from two years ago?
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Call us when you need the alliance to bail you out again lol.
You may refuse to attack Jania… but I bet she won’t refuse to attack you.
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LoL 
I am referring to it as the entire emotional connection one has to a character in an artistic depiction; whether it be: sadness, joy, anger, relief etc… this term is generally used for books and other media in which characters have a story and character growth/development, not just theatre.
Catharsis Explained
A cathartic experience—whether in theater or literature—is an experience in which the audience or reader experiences the same emotions that the characters are experiencing on stage or on the page. It follows, then, that a cathartic work is any work of literature that gives readers this experience. Imagine, for example, a book about a young boy who loses his mother to cancer. Such a book might not be cathartic for everyone, but for someone who has lost a friend or family member to cancer, reading such a book may be an extremely emotional experience, in the sense that such a reader may find themselves feeling the character’s grief or anger as though it were their own. This example serves to highlight an important part of what makes a work of literature cathartic: the reader must have developed a strong identification with the characters. In other words, if readers aren’t able to “see themselves” in the characters—if they feel they don’t have any qualities or experiences in common—then they probably won’t achieve the level of emotional investment necessary to have a cathartic experience in response to the work. Because of this, it generally takes a great deal of skill and experience on the part of the author to produce a truly cathartic piece of literature.
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Well what you originally said was -
Which doesn’t actually gel with the definition you gave which was -
You’re mixing up the cause with the effect. Empathy causes the audience to feel * Catharsis* for a character due to dramatic (or comedic, etc.) effect on the audience and/or the character.
So you are right about the term being correct but the way you worded your original response was misleading.
There is no catharsis without some degree of empathy.
But the term itself is called a Cathartic experience, a “Catharsis” for short…so still not an incorrect term usage…
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But also still misleading. You don’t feel catharsis for a character, you feel it because of a character, but only if an emotional connection is established i.e. empathy.
Even your long-winded excerpt above establishes that.
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She invaded and killed hundreds (if not thousands) during the Siege of Zuldazar. She should be tried for her war crimes in front of whatever the Azeroth equivalent is to the UN Security Council Tribunals.
I demand justice for the people of Zandalar.
I dont want to hurt jaina, i want to straight up kill her, alongside thrall, baine, anduin and all these whack characters.
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