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To SH's contemporaries, all you needed for a tragedy was a bunch of dead bodies by the end; it was SH more than anyone who reintroduced the classical idea that the hero's fall should make sense, and somehow be a product of his own character and actions. And, unlike the "tragic flaw" school of tragedy, where one small imperfection brings the hero down, SH seems to see the hero's greatness as itself self-destructive: that is, Romeo and Juliet die in part because they're too pure for an impure world; Hamlet has problems because he's more complex than others, etc.Posted by Hamlet on March 27, 1997 at 09:24:05
In Reply to "Tragedy?!?" posted by Romeo's Girl on March 26, 1997 at 20:14:43
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