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Shakespearean Tragedy, Shakespearean tragedies have their own specific…
Shakespearean Tragedy
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Comic Relief: One or more humorous characters who participate in scenes intended to lighten the mood.**
This involves using comedy and humor, which can be in the forms of a humorous scenario, a character having funny lines, or puns (words that have more than one meaning)
Tragic Waste: The good being destroyed along with the bad at the resolution of the play. Often played out with the unnecessary loss of life, especially of "good guy" characters.
In Shakespearean tragedies, the hero usually dies along with his opponent. The death of a hero is not an ordinary death; it encompasses the loss of an exceptionally intellectual, honest, intelligent, noble, and virtuous person." Shakespearean tragedy always includes a tragic waste of goodness.
Lack of Poetic Justice:
Things end poorly for everyone, including the "good guys."
Poetic Justice means “good is rewarded and evil is punished”; it refers to a situation in which everything comes to a fitting and just ends. However, there is no poetic justice in the tragedies of Shakespeare, only partial. Shakespeare understood that poetic justice rarely occurs outside of fiction.
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Supernatural Elements: Magic, ghosts
Supernatural elements play an important role in creating an atmosphere of awe, wonder, and sometimes fear. Supernatural elements are typically used to advance the story and drive the plot.
Hamartia: The fatal character flaw of the tragic hero.
Hamartia is the Greek word for “sin” or “error”, which derives from the verb hamatanein, meaning “to err” or “to miss the mark”. In other words, hamartia refers to the hero's tragic flaw.
Conflict
This can be a problem facing the hero as a result of the plot or a "bad guy" character (external), or The struggle the hero engages in with his/her fatal flaw (internal).
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Shakespearean tragedies have their own specific features, which differentiate them from other types of tragedies. It must be remembered that Shakespeare's work is indebted to Aristotle’s Theory of Tragedy: