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A 5 page paper that analyzes the classic concepts and elements of tragedy present in Shakespeare's Hamlet. This paper focuses on tragedy as an imitation of life, the capability of well-developed tragedy to evoke sympathy and fear, and the two elements of situation reversal & self-recognition. Shakespeare's use of all of these elements in Hamlet is presented and discussed. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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emotions of both pity and fear (http://libertyonline. hypermall.com/Aristotle/Poetics.html). Modern scholars studying the classic concept of tragedy have later interpreted the word "pity" as used by Aristotle to mean "sympathy",
for human nature rarely feels pity for a victim of tragic circumstance, but instead tends to sympathize with that victim (Kaufmann 45). Therefore, a tragedy that is deemed well
written and correctly developed is one that entails a believable imitation of life and one that can draw from the reader or viewer the strong emotions of fear and sympathy.
The tragic story always introduces the figure of a tragic hero, one who suffers from unexpected calamities and misfortunes and who, through these calamities and misfortunes, reaches a higher
level of awareness and understanding (Bradley http://global.cscc.edu/engl/264/TragedyLex.htm). The well developed tragic story is one in which the audience both fears for and sympathizes with the hero, and one in
which the end result provides a higher level of awareness to not only the hero, but also to those who identify with the hero. In an effective tragedy, the
audience glimpses aspects of its own nature within the character of the tragic hero and recognizes similarities of its own human condition in the circumstances that surround the hero.
William Shakespeare succeeded in producing a tragedy that incorporated all of these elements in 1604 when he introduced the world to his tragic hero named Hamlet in a tale he
called The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. Shakespeare introduces the tragic circumstances that surround this story in the very first scenes of the play. Immediately, the audience is
made aware of the fact that the tragic figure of Hamlet has, within the two months just past, been forced to confront two of the harshest realities presented by the
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