What is Tragedy?. TRAGEDY DEFINED a great work of art ennobles and uplifts the audience creates catharsis in the audience (a purging of emotions)

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What is Tragedy?

TRAGEDY DEFINED a great work of art ennobles and uplifts the audience creates catharsis in the audience (a purging of emotions)

Tragic Figures noble figures better than the average person they suffer a reversal of fortune they endure great suffering they recognize the consequence of their actions

“Terrible Beauty” terrible-extreme suffering of the tragic feature beauty-their dignity while suffering

Oedipus Rex written around 500 B.C. by Sophocles economical play (contains no extraneous material) explores the depths of the human suffering

Oedipus Rex plot points Oedipus, the King of Thebes, must discover his past to save his city from a plague sent by the gods. Oedipus’s version of his history: He was told as a youth by an oracle that he was destined to kill his father and marry his mother. - He married his mother He decides to leave Corinth and his parent -Horrified, he punishes himself by gouging his eyes out, and is banished from the city On the road to Thebes, he gets in an argument with a man at a crossroads and kills him.

Oedipus Cont. Thebes is terrorized by the Sphinx, a half-woman/half lion monster Oedipus arrives in Thebes; defeats the Sphinx by answering its riddle Oedipus is made King of Thebes, then marries the widowed Jocasta Oedipus discovers: His “parents” were actually his foster parents He is the son of the man he killed at the crossroads, who was the King of Thebes

The Tragic Figure Check list: Oedipus A mighty figure? Yes Suffers a reversal of fortune? Yes Endures uncommon suffering? Yes Recognizes the consequences of his actions? Yes Does his plight ennoble us? Yes

Tragedy in the Middle ages ( A.D.) tragic tales in the form of narratives in fall or death of main character is the tragedy meant to teach the audience moral lessons -Examples: De Casibus Virorum Illustrium by Boccaccio The Mirror for Magistrates Wheel of Fortune: If a character is successful (at the top of the wheel), the wheel will turn and soon they’ll suffer from tragic events (at the bottom of the wheel

Shakespeare and Tragedy influenced by De Casibus tragedies his tragedies reflect the theme of life as a pattern controlled by fortune

Shakespeare and Tragedy Titus Adronicus- Shakespeare’s first tragedy -A Roman general gets bloody revenge for crimes against his family Romeo and Juliet- a hybrid comedic/tragic structure -Two young lovers from warring families fall in love and meet a fatal end

Shakespeare cont. Hamlet-Shakespeare’s most famous tragedy; philosophical play -A prince must decide whether to avenge his father’s murder Othello- very economical tragedy -A Moorish general succumbs to his paranoid jealousy and kills his wife, then himself

Shakespeare tragedy cont. Macbeth- perhaps Shakespeare’s finest dramatic poetry. An ambitious nobleman murders his way to the throne and destroys his soul in the process King Lear- perhaps Shakespeare’s greatest tragedy. A fairy tale-like play of a king who rashly gives up his kingdom and exiles his loved ones. Through suffering and madness he redeems himself