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Tragedy - Coggle Diagram
Tragedy
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Shakespeare
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Suffering and distress
Scenes where the protagonist cries out in anguish to human or divine witnesses of his or her misery.
The causes of suffering are diffuse and seem
to involve large abstract forces as well as human error, weakness, and malice.
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Time: untimely acts, whether tardy
or rash, are punished in kind.
Other Views on Tragedy
Bradley
- He contended that the
distinguishing feature of Shakespearean tragedy is conflict within the hero, who is a man divided against himself.
- He argued that tragedy demonstrates there exist an ultimate power which reacts violently against evil but in the process destroys much of what is good as well.
Hegel and Nietzsche
They were influenced by cosmology (positive view of tragedy).They both saw contrariety as the center of the universe.
- HEGEL: conflict between the personal embodiments of universal ethical power. The resolution of the comflict comfirms the existance of a just and divine world order.
- NIETZSCHE: tragedy as a process involving the conflict and reconciliation
of opposites:Apollo(reason, control, and art) and Dionysus (passionate destructive energy,
orgiastic abandon, and the self-renewing force of life itself)
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Aristotle's View
-Tragedy success depends on its capacity to excite pity and fear, effecting a catharsis of these emotions.
Senecan Tragedy
His tragedies are characterized by:
- Horrific crimes and tyranical abuse of power.
- The protagonists' sense of selfhood.
- Characters are driven to murder by inordinate passions which seem humanly uncontrollable.
- Protagonists cursed by the consequences of evils rooted in the past. They seem to be the victims of their fate.
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