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Tragedy Essay (JONOTHAN DOLLIMORE (The forces destructive of life…
Tragedy Essay
JONOTHAN DOLLIMORE
The forces destructive of life paradoxically pressure it into its finest expression in the events which lead to, and especially those which immediately precede, the protagonist’s death.
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Tragedy is an order behind the immediate disorder? However, this is not an immediate moral law, but instead is more mystical and mysterious involving faith in a cosmic good.
In Elizabethan tragedy the murder of innocents is part of a larger catastrophic movement which is eventually moral
Marilyn French
In ‘heroic worlds’, women must become as men, and the loss such a situation entails to the culture at large is the subject of the tragedy’?
Lady Macbeth’s crime is heinous because it violated her social role, which has been erected into a principle of experience: she fails to uphold the feminine principle. This plunges her into the pit of evil more deeply than any man can ever fall.
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The play ends as it began, in a totally masculine world.
In this world, sons exist to go to war, and women exist to give birth to sons who are born to kill or be killed in battle
Although some balance is restored to the kingdom, there is no change in its value structure
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Freud
Lady Macbeth is a tragic character because at the very moment she reaches her 'success' or the realisation of her ambition, she begins to psychologically self destruct?
Malcolm Evans
Once the structures of Duncan’s kingdom are wrenched from their place in nature, Macbeth himself becomes a plurality, a process rather than a fixity. Similarly, the bonds between the state, the subject and the unequivocal linguistic mode of order and nature are broken.
Therefore some sort of cosmic order needs to be returned? Macbeth cannot be allowed to disintegrate all known boundaries and divisions.
BRADLEY
Tragedy is inevitable and pre-ordained as Macbeth goes on and on spinning his web of demise. However, this assumes an unchanging human nature, which is a simplistic rendition of actuality. Do tragic heroes have to have a distinctive spiritual nobility in order to be tragic? elitist. However, we can't just focus on the individuals, as there also has to be a flaw in their environment; a flaw in society in order for their downfall to happen
Humanist - subject confronting a moral choice and the subject who speaks, who identifies in cosmic imagery the perils of his own ambition. In the gap between them it constructs the feeling, self conscious, poetic Macbeth, a full subject, a character.