Elements of the Shakespearean Tragedy

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Elements of the Shakespearean Tragedy

• Tragic Hero a person of high rank whose fate
  affects the destiny of his country, city, or
  family.
• The hero is always an extraordinary and admirable
  man. He is usually good and noble, but when
  evil, he has equal traits such as strength,
  courage or ambition.

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Shakespearean Tragedy

• The hero has a character flaw, which, with the
  help of other circumstances, leads the hero to
  calamity and deatha contrast to the heros prior
  happiness and glory.
• A dual conflict generates the plays action.
  There is an external conflict (war) and an
  internal conflict (Macbeths ambition and later
  his guilty conscience).

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Shakespearean Tragedy

• Good always triumphs in the end. Although the
  hero has pulled down the world around him, there
  is someone who restores order at the end of the
  tragedy.
• Tragedies contain the supernatural, such as
  witches and ghosts.
• Tragedies contain characters who experience
  abnormal psychological states, such as Macbeths
  visions.