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In History, Politics & Society

What are tragedies?

Answer . a tragedy is like a hardship i guess you can call it that you go through in life and it can also be like trials that you go through an life.....for example if a l… (MORE)

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In Drama and Acting

What is tragedy?

In drama, it's a form in which the characters are impelled to an unhappy outcome by forces or flaws beyond their control. In everyday modern usage the word also describes a… (MORE)

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In Ancient History

What is a revenge tragedy?

A style of drama, popular in England during the late 16th and 17thcenturies. In which the basic plot was a quest for vengeance andwhich typically featured scenes of carnage an… (MORE)

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In History of China

What was the tiananmen tragedy?

In June 1989, students, workers and others gathered in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, for a peaceful protest against various policies of the Communist government. After a couple o… (MORE)

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In Drama and Acting

When was tragedy created?

The earliest tragedies, that is to say, tragic plays, were written in Ancient Greece by such playwrights as Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides

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In Books and Literature

What is a tragedy and why is Macbeth a Shakespearean tragedy?

What is Tragedy and Why is Macbeth a Shakespearean Tragedy. Tragedy is a very ancient form of literature. It is the imitation of an action which is serious and complete. Th…e aim of a tragedy is to rouse the emotions of sympathy and fear in the soul of it's spectator. Tragedy should have literary decorations like poetry, philosophy and humour. It should be in the form of action, and not be narrative. It should also have the appropriate length to be acted on a stage. These definitions and prescriptions for tragedy were framed by none other than Aristotle, the philosopher of Greece where Tragedy ascended the peaks. Tragedy has a high educative value. It makes man 'sadder and wise' as Coleridge in The Rhyme Of The Ancient Mariner has phrased. The combined effect of the emotions of pity and fear through which the spectator's mind goes through purges and purifies his mind, which process, in Greek, is denoted by the word Catharsis. Modern medicine has borrowed this word to mean discharge of emotions as a pressure valve. The source of Shakespeare's Macbeth is Holinshed's Chronicles. The time of action covered in the play is the seventeen years from 1040 to 1057 of the Eleventh Century. 1040 was the year of the King of Scotland Duncan's death and 1057 the year of his General, Macbeth's death in real history. When Scotland was threatened with a civil war and foreign attacks, King Duncan deputed his Generals Macbeth and Banquo to suppress the enemies. Both fought very bravely till their enemies were either slaughtered or they surrendered. Macbeth began to be considered as a hero and a saviour by the King as well as by his subjects. But under the spell of three witches and also tempted by his wicked wife, Macbeth sought the very Kingship of Scotland for him. This spell and temptation was so strong and irresistible to him that eventually Macbeth assassinated Duncan when the King paid him the honour of visiting him and staying in his castle. A series of assassinations took place one after the other, all done by him or his spies. The sum total of all these murders are spread in 5 Acts and 29 Scenes in the play. It may be said that Macbeth was written in blood by Shakespeare. (MORE)

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In Word and Phrase Origins

Is murder a tragedy?

As an alternative for the thesaurus it is not but in real life murder does effect the lives of a countless amount of people whether your the murderer or a witness of the victi… (MORE)

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In Books and Literature

What is Tragedy and Why is Macbeth a Shakespearean Tragedy?

A tragedy is a play which turns out sadly for the characters, often with most of them dying. Macbeth is a Shakespearean tragedy because it was written by Shakespeare (except t… (MORE)

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In Drama and Acting

What is true of a tragedy?

In "Soul Surfer" When the Girl Bethany Hamilton Got her hand got bitten off by a shark. Or in "The Vow" When Paige played by Rachel McAdam's lost her memory when a truck hit h… (MORE)

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In Uncategorized

Why is phaedra a tragedy?

Phaedra killed herself and accused Hippolytus of rape and Theseusbanished and cursed him and he died leaving in a chariot.