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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 | ||
'''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 == | == Some Views on Tragedy == |