Question

Give an example of mimesis.

Answer 1

Prior to the term being used in his Poetics by the philosopher Aristotle, this Greek word described a method of imitation or mimicry with a wide variety of applications. However, Aristotle adapted the word to fit his idea that the artistic activities , particularly tragic drama, imitate the people , places and circumstances that we find in the real world around us.

An example of mimesis in American daily speech is when a person likes a film or song because he/she "identifies" with it. Identifying here requires finding parallels between an art work and itself
From the point of view of the audience, the creation of another world like but not identical to the real world by art can be felt when a viewer feels absorbed in a film or drama, or when a reader becomes absorbed or absorbed in a novel as if the imaginary world were more real than the world in which the reader sits and respires.
The idea of mimesis is so pervasive and conventional that it's hard to know where it starts or ends. Like with symbol networks, our consciousness is built from a mimetic understanding of reality