Essays on Tragedy

According to Aristotle’s theory of tragedy, the tragic hero must begin the play as a high status individual so that his fall from grace carries impact. Aristotle believed that since the aim of tragedy is to provoke emotion in the audience, that goal is easily...

 ‘To be or not to be, that is the question’ or in other words, is it better for Shakespeare to just die or live on? In case if you didn’t know, 400 years later, Shakespeare is still relevant In our lives today through the various...

Romeo and Juliet, famous as a classical tragedy, but nobody knows its really a comedy. Willam Shakespeare is known for adding humorous effects, and deeper meanings to his literature through puns, especially in Romeo and Juliet. The story of Romeo and Juliet is about two...

The study focuses on the expression and translation of feelings of love and hate in the text of the Hamlet tragedy. Hamlet’s reverence and love for his ancestors, his love and hate for his mother, and his beautiful Aphilia, and those feelings that eventually led...

Oedipus Rex is a Greek tragedy that was written by Sophocles before the birth of Christ. The foundation of this play is based on a prophecy which said that; the son of the king will murder him and marry his mother. This son goes by...

Medea is an Ancient Greek tragedy play written by Euripides of Jason and Medea’s love-story myth. Throughout this play, Medea tells the story of jealousy and revenge of herself by being unexpectedly betrayed by her husband, Jason, whom she loved deeply. He left her to...

In this Greek tragedy, Euripides crafts a tale that centres around the complexities of Medea’s character: her cleverness, sorcery, murderous tendencies, and her status as a foreigner. Euripides takes these traits and elevates them to new heights in his play. The playwright puts Medea’s otherness...

“Othello” is viewed as one of William Shakespeare’s most prominent plays due to its themes of military, politics, good and evil, racial prejudice, love and marriage and sexuality. Often when the protagonists die from Shakespeare’s plays, the readers would categorize the play as a tragedy,...

Every hero has a flaw. As the dictionary states, a “tragic flaw is a literary device that can be defined as a trait in a character leading to his downfall, and the character is often the hero of the literary piece. This trait could be...

Upon its introduction into the world by the Ancient Greeks, tragedies were known for featuring nobility as protagonists due to their high status. The fact that these noble men/women could descend from a position of such high prestige is what gave audiences the intense love...