e. Plato believes that the viewer is seduced into entering into a state of empathy and even identification with the characters witnessed on the stage or told about in the story. As a result, the viewer comes to sympathize with subjects for which he should rather feel “disgust” than “enjoyment and admiration.”1 This delight in entering into the fiction being portrayed, says Plato, leads us to imitate such behavior because “what we feel for other people must infect what we feel for ourselves.”2 According to Plato, then, “bad taste in the theatre may insensibly lead you into becoming a buffoon at home.”3 In other words, one comes through the fictions of poetry and drama to identify with the bad behavior of bad characters and so to behave badly and to become bad oneself.
https://davidwithun.com/2013/12/12/plato-and-aristotle-on-drama-and-poetry/
he tried to warn us…Holly Wood.