Tragedy

known to humanity. Not only do the two protagonists commit suicide, the causes of why the whole story leading up to their deaths is disputed from around the globe. My opinion is that the ages of the characters, particularly Romeo caused this immense tragedy. His age caused him to develop many flaws, his idea of love, his imaturaty, and his impulsivenes. Romeo's idea of love was way too dramatic. From the first time we meet Romeo, the reader can sense he has to be deeply involved with some kind…

Perhaps one of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies, Othello captures the true essence of an Aristotelian tragedy through the rise and fall of Othello The Moor, and his wife Desdemona. The sovereignty, and love both held for themselves, and one another slips away in a battle for power championed by Iago. Othello, leader of men, purveyor of lands, and lover of Desdemona falls ever so swiftly from his stately manner to a disgraced, dead man by the end of the play. His insatiable appetite to prove…

What facets are necessary to deem a character tragic? Characters in Sophocles’ Greek tragedy, Antigone, wholly encompass such factors. In Aristotle’s Poetics, he describes four characteristics that help make up a tragic character. However, the main concept in understanding a tragic character is to know that the character is not a victim. Of the essence of tragic characters, Aristotle states, “[They are] between two extremes - that of a man who is not eminently good and just, yet whose…

Drama Analysis Essay In literature, the character’s tragic flaw, ultimately brings about their downfall. Regardless of the intention or character’s best efforts, the tragic flaw will bring about the destruction of the character. A tragedy is a play that shows the fall of a noble hero from high standing to a disaster because of a character flaw. In Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar and Brutus go through this during the course of the play. Julius Caesar’s flaw of arrogance and…

in Athens, Sophocles’ prolific writings were a tasteful improvement of his predecessor, Aeschylus and a stepping stone for his successor, Euripides. Sophocles is known to be born in 495 BC in the city of Colonus (Sophocles and Sophocles and His Tragedies). His father was a manufacturer of…

manipulation, and without manipulation, the course of history would have changed dramatically. Brutus would never have joined the conspiracy to kill Caesar, and because of that, the second triumvirate would change. In William Shakespeare’s play The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, Shakespeare writes about how deceit, treachery, and facades are used time and time again for conspirators and loyal friends to get what they want. Shakespeare demonstrates how certain personality traits, such as arrogance,…

Jean Racine said it best, “A tragedy need not have blood and death; it 's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.” In other words, tragedy is merely a compilation of several elements which play on our deepest and most intimate emotions. Aristotle was among the first philosophers to recognize and critique the tragedy. Within “Poetics”, Aristotle discusses the very logistics of the dramatic tragedy. While some tragedies can seem to be a maelstrom of…

(Add hook) Aristotle 's Theory of Tragedy consists of seven areas that a tragedy must fully consist of: each area breaking into even smaller criteria. Characters, the second category, touches on what the protagonist of a tragedy must have in order to be considered as such. Some of the most noteworthy categories are hamartia, consistency, and tragic downfall. When analyzing the characters of Antigone, the Greek Tragedy written by Sophocles, there a few characters that could appropriately fit into…

William Shakespeare’s play, Romeo and Juliet, is widely known as a tragedy, to people of all age groups, but why did the tragedy occur? In the story Romeo and Juliet, many of the characters lose control of themselves, and act without thinking about the consequences. This irrational behaviour is caused when people cannot control their emotions. The tragedy which occurred in the play was ultimately bred from the malice between the two families. Many of the decisions made during the play were done…

Revenge tragedy was a popular form of theater among the playwrights and the populace of the Elizabethan and Jacobean period. According to Broude, revenge tragedy is “fundamentally un-Christian, based upon a barbaric ethic derived from Senecan tragedy and the Anglo-Saxon blood feud” (1975: 39). The word revenge in renaissance period had a meaning near to retribution, and revenge plays were concerned mainly with divine retribution (cf. Ibid.: 39). During Jacobean period, some conventions were…