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| ** <i>[[MacBeth]]</i> - MacBeth commits regicide, and then himself comes to an untimely end on the battlefield | | ** <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 | | ** <i>[[King Lear]]</i> - Cordelia comes to the aid of her father and is imprisoned and sentenced to death |
| Classic '''American Tragedies''' include<ref>Sewall, Richard B. "The American Tragic Novel." <i>Tragedy</i>. N.p., 20 Mar. 2014. Web. <http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/601884/tragedy/51125/The-American-tragic-novel></ref>:
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| * [[F.Scott Fitzgerald]]
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| ** <i>[[The Great Gatsby]]</i> - Gatsby is betrayed by his own dream, nurtured by meretricious society
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| * [[Ernest Hemingway]]
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| ** <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
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| * [[Nathaniel Hawthorne]]
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| ** <i>[[The Scarlet Letter]]</i> - The heroine who has committed adultery must live with the unresolved resulting conflict in her mind and heart while living out her life in a gray and tragic isolation
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| == Some Views on Tragedy == | | == Some Views on Tragedy == |