Monday, 8 September 2014

Shakeshperean tragedy








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The Renaissance Literature


Shakespearean Tragedy.








The four most famous Shakespearean Tragedy are (1) Othello (2)Hamlet (3)Macbeth (4)Romeo JulietWilliam Shakespeare started writing tragedy because he thought the tragic plots used by other English writers were lacking artistic purpose and form. He used a fall of a notable persona as the main focus in his tragedies. Suspense and climax were an added attraction for the audience. His work was extraordinary in that it was note of the norm for the time. A reader with even little knowledge of his work would recognize one of the tragedy as a work of Shakespeare. A hero today is seen as a person who is idolized . now a days a hero dose not have to have wealth or certain political beliefs but instead can be regarded as a hero for his or her actions or inner strength. However in the plays of Shakespeare the tragic hero is a nobleman who enjoys some status and prosperity in society but possesses some moral weakness or flaw which leads to his downfall. External circumstances such as fate also play a part in the hero’s fall evil agents often act upon the hero and the forces of good causing the hero to make wrong decisions. Innocent people always feel the fall in tragedies as well.

Hamlet
Through reading Shakespeare’s Hamlet we see how one man’s greed results in at least nine deaths in the tragedy. We demonstrate their understanding of the text on the four levels factual, interpretive, critical, and personal. We see the conflicts of man VS himself and man VS man resolved in the tragedy. We learn that political struggles for power within a government are a part of any historical era, not just modern times. We study the theme of revenge. tragedy. We learn that political struggles for power within a government are a part of any historical era, not just modern times. We study the theme of revenge.
Shakespeare wants to establish a mood of tension and suspense from the very beginning, a sense of impending violence. Notice how much he conveys in just the first 21 lines of this scene. We have two ordinary soldiers on sentry duty meeting, Francisco and Barnardo. Obviously they are not important in the army hierarchy; otherwise they wouldn’t be on guard duty in the middle of the night. They are guarding against some kind of external threat and encounter each other with suspension, each demanding that the other reveal himself and give the password “Long Live the king”. Barnardo has come to relieve Francisco and has arrived at midnight “most carefully,” that is right on time.(one of the things Shakespeare often did in his plays was to accelerate the sense of time for dramatic purposes. By line 46 in this scene we will be told its one clock and by line 181 it will be daybreak.)

     



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