Tragedies

What Defines a Tragedy? The dictionary describes a tragedy as, “a serious drama typically describing a conflict between the protagonist and a superior force (as destiny) and having a sorrowful or disastrous conclusion that elicits pity or fear.” Aristotle’s “Poetics” have long been the standard of a proper tragedy. Yet, could there be more to the perfect tragedy than what either the dictionary or Aristotle suggests? What are the actual characteristics that form a “true” tragedy? In Sophocles’ “Oedipus

for a long time that Ancient tragedy, more often called Greek tragedy is one of the types of more wider species called drama. So Greek tragedy is a drama work in which main action focuses on a conflict between individual who often makes a lot of mistakes even foolish against a fate or doom and in such struggle individual is always at the loss and his defeat is inevitable, even if he goes far beyond his averages. Although people know pretty much about ancient tragedy, its gene is still debated amongst

Theories on Tragedy in Antigone Many dramatic theorists have documented their opinions of Sophocles' tragic play Antigone. They have presented their interpretations as to the motives and moral character of Antigone and Creon. I will attempt to encapsulate the basic logic behind the arguments of the critics Brian Vickers, A.C. Bradley (who interprets Hegel), and H. D. F. Kitto, and venture my own humble opinion as to their validity. Brian Vickers clearly favors the character

Ultimate Reason For Othello’s Tragedy--Self-Contempt Speaking of the reasons of Othello’s tragic ending, the opinions have been various. Some people believe that racial discrimination contributes to the tragedy; some deem that Othello’s character defects causes the tragedy; some think that the instability of their love leads to the tragic end…… In my opinion, many of these factors are the by-products of his self-contempt, the most fundamental reason of Othello’s tragedy should be inferiority complex

In spite of the fact that tragedies had been written in the English language before William Shakespeare’s time, it was England’s national poet who gave tragedies their distinguishing qualities and elevated tragedies to its peak of excellence. It is within Shakespeare’s tragedies where the operation of a tragic flaw in a hero’s character is depicted. The word “tragic flaw” is derived from the Greek concept of Hamartia, used by Greek philosopher Aristotle. A “tragic flaw” is defined as a personality

Q.1. Discuss Dr Faustus as a tragedy. Tragedy – Definition Aristotle defines a tragedy as a ‘representation of an action which is important, complete and limited in length. It is enacted not recited and by arousing pity and fear, it gives an outlet to emotions of this type.’ However, for the Elizabethans, more specifically for Marlowe and Shakespeare, tragedy is not a restrictive view of human excellence or weakness as the Greeks are often inclined to present but an affirmative view of human

Tragedy: A Great Topic (In Discussion: The Construction of Poetry) “Of all the Causes which conspire to blind man’s erring judgement, and misguide the mind, what the weak head with strongest bias rules, is pride, the never-failing vice of fools. Whatever Nature has in worth denied, she gives in large recruits of needful Pride: for as in bodies, thus in souls, we find what wants in blood and spirit, swelled with wind: Pride, where Wit fails, steps in to our defence, and fills up all the mighty Void

A Shakespearean tragedy is one that encompasses many different elements. Shakespeare presents all of these elements spectacularly in Othello. For a tragedy to occur there are five conditions. The protagonist, Othello in this case, must experience a death or a total loss of ranking in society. The audience must also be captured by the actors and feel some sort of connection to them. This is known as catharsis. In Shakespearean tragedies the protagonist always has a character defect or a tragic flaw

Poetics and the Perfect Tragedy: An Analysis of Oedipus Tyrannus Aristotle’s Poetics argues that the a successful tragedy is determined by its “plot, character, diction, reasoning, spectacle and lyric poetry” (50a8). A great tragic work, as described by Aristotle, will be impossible without plot, but characters are merely optional—the most effective tragic device lies in the perceptions and implications a tragedy’s plot yields. Yet, having a protagonist of “not outstanding moral excellence or justice”

Tragedy is mimesis but also shock, it is pain but also relief, it is heightened by religion but also less effective because of it, it is vulnerability and also enlightenment. Tragedy in my opinion is a contradiction, oxymoronic within its meanings, interpretations and guidelines. Tragedy first appeared in Athiens around 533BC with the actor Thespis, hence where the word ‘thespian’ came from. Tragedy appears every second of every day, recently a woman died tragically in a car accident in Wagga Wagga