Macbeth as a tragedy
Macbeth as a Tragedy According to Aristotle 's Definition Literature provides us the various sensation; for examples; love, hate, sorrow, melancholy, pity, fear and joyfulness. Melancholy is the origination of many great literature works; for instances; the works written by the greatest writer in English literature, William Shakespeare. He wrote many precious works and his masterpiece namely tragedy of Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and Macbeth. The Tragedy of Macbeth seems to fit to an idea mold created by Aristotle. Aristotle is one of the greatest philosophers of Ancient Greece. In the Poetics, Aristotle explained about his theory of tragedy was based on: Aristotle’s Definition of Tragedy. “A tragedy is the imitation of an action that is serious and also, as having magnitude, complete in itself; in appropriate and pleasurable language;... in a dramatic rather than narrative form; with incidents arousing pity and fear, wherewith to accomplish a catharsis of these emotions.” (classics.mit.edu) This means that a good tragedy always deals with the serious issue. We can see in many tragedies that they were involved with the death. The tragedy cannot be the story of a small failure or unsuccessful of something which can be founded in everyday life; for example; lost of wallet or car crash. Besides, its plot should be complete and have a unity of one main issue; for preventing the audiences get lost of the plot. For making the audiences understand clearly, the language in the play should be easy to listen and the rhythm should have good harmony when it was sung. Moreover, the play is not like the story that can be simply told. The play should be acted out more dramatic compared to narrate a story. In the tragedy, the events in the play will lead the audience to feel mournful because of the main character or the tragic hero; and they may fear when the main character was dived to cause the ruination in the end. As the play moves along, the events
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