LITERATURE QUESTIONS
RESTORATION EIGHTEENTH CENTURY DRAMA
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chance.
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destiny.
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strategy.
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wisdom.
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historical determinism.
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Detailed explanation-1: -In this early essay, then, Schiller defines tragedy as the art that imitates nature in those actions most apt to arouse sympathy. In other words, it is the art form that evokes the universal pleasure humans experience when triumphing over their sensuous nature (NA XX, 153–4/E 6).
Detailed explanation-2: -The German Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805) is best known as a poet and a playwright – in particular for his hymn An die Freude (Ode to Joy), chosen by Beethoven for his Ninth Symphony and, 250 years later, by the Council of Europe as the anthem of the European Union.
Detailed explanation-3: -Schiller was an idealist. We speak that word too glibly, seldom stopping to consider what it means to be a true idealist. We usually confound our desires-which range all the way from getting a good dinner to making a fortune-with Ideals.