Role of Male Characters in the Major Shakespearean Tragedies
Journal Title: IOSR Journal of Humanities and Social Science - Year 2018, Vol 23, Issue 10
Abstract
A Shakespearean tragedy, critics say, is a five storey mansion marked by exposition, the rising action, the crisis the falling action and the catastrophe. Its hero rises from scene to scene on the currents of passion and imagination, having at last, reached the heights of tragedy; he disappears through death but only after highlighting the inherent greatness of man. Shakespeare has written a large number of tragedies of which the four, Hamlet, Macbeth Othello and King Lear are considered to be standard works for purposes of analyzing his conception of tragedy. These tragedies have, no doubt, different designs, but there is a family likeness in their heroes who have common traits and humours that constitute their characters. Some critics believe that character is destiny in a Shakespearean tragedy. That is, the character of the hero determines his fate and destiny. In the latter, the hero is merely an agent of fate, and not the master of his destiny. In a Greek tragedy, there are the gods who punish the hero; in a Shakespearean tragedy the hero is punished by his self-willed actions. The former works through fate, the latter through free will. There is fate but this does not control the actions of the heroes. Man is free, in the world of Shakespearean tragedy to choose, but having chosen once he cannot retract or retrace.
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Md. Sirajuddin Shah
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