Tragedy: Difference between revisions

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** [[MacBeth]] - MacBeth commits regicide, and then himself comes to an untimely end on the battlefield

** [[King Lear]] - Cordelia comes to the aid of her father and is imprisoned and sentenced to death

'''American Tragedies'''

* [[F.Scott Fitzgerald]]

** [[The Great Gatsby]] - Gatsby is betrayed by his own dream, nurtured by meretricious society

* [[Ernest Hemingway]]

** [[A Farewell to Arms]] - The hero is disillusioned by war, makes a separate peace, deserts, and joins his beloved in neutral Switzerland. His beloved dies in child birth and he realizes society will get you one way

* [[Nathaniel Hawthorne]]

** [[The Scarlet Letter]] - The heroine who has committed adultery must live with the unresolved resulting conflict in her min and heart while living out her life in a gray and tragic isolation

== Some Views on Tragedy ==

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 ** <i>[[MacBeth]]</i> - MacBeth commits regicide, and then himself comes to an untimely end on the battlefield
 ** <i>[[King Lear]]</i> - Cordelia comes to the aid of her father and is imprisoned and sentenced to death
+'''American Tragedies'''
+* [[F.Scott Fitzgerald]]
+** <i>[[The Great Gatsby]]</i> - Gatsby is betrayed by his own dream, nurtured by meretricious society
+* [[Ernest Hemingway]]
+** <i>[[A Farewell to Arms]]</i> - The hero is disillusioned by war, makes a separate peace, deserts, and joins his beloved in neutral Switzerland. His beloved dies in child birth and he realizes society will get you one way
+* [[Nathaniel Hawthorne]]
+** <i>[[The Scarlet Letter]]</i> - The heroine who has committed adultery must live with the unresolved resulting conflict in her min and heart while living out her life in a gray and tragic isolation
 == Some Views on Tragedy ==