Anagnorisis

Anagnorisis is a moment in a play or other work when a character makes a critical discovery. Anagnorisis originally meant recognition in its Greek context, not only of a person but also of what that person stood for. Anagnorisis was the hero's sudden awareness of a real situation, the realization of things as they stood, and finally, the hero's insight into a relationship with an often antagonistic character in Aristotelian tragedy.

Anagnorisis can be seen as the "revelation" in Go Mad from the Revelation.

Compare The Reveal.

Theatre

 * The Zeroth Law of Trope Examples applies here. That most famous soliloquy from Hamlet, "To be or not to be..." is an anagnorisis in that it defines how Hamlet sees himself in relation to the world around him.