LITERATURE QUESTIONS
INTRODUCTION TO LITERARY STUDIES
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A play that depicts the downfall of a noble person
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A play in which someone gets revenge
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A play in which a hero faces likely defeat and overcomes it
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A play in which no form of humor appears
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Detailed explanation-1: -tragedy, branch of drama that treats in a serious and dignified style the sorrowful or terrible events encountered or caused by a heroic individual.
Detailed explanation-2: -Meaning of tragedy in English. a very sad event or situation, especially one involving death or suffering: The pilot averted a tragedy when he succeeded in preventing the plane from crashing.
Detailed explanation-3: -In his Poetics, the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle defined tragedy as a morally ambiguous genre in which a noble hero goes from good fortune to bad. For Aristotle, the tragic hero can’t be totally evil or purely good, but instead, must be a “character between these two extremes…
Detailed explanation-4: -Hamartia is the tragic flaw which leads to the hero’s downfall. Coming from the Greek word meaning “to err, ” it is a flaw form within the character themselves. It is often a blatant character trait, like hubris.