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The tragic irony of the play is that the very belief in and concern with a devil who could be met in the woods and combatted with formulae set out in books was the very thing that prevented them from detecting the real devil when he came among them.
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However, this deed, too, failed to make him the figure of tragic destiny he had hoped to become ; it merely gave his end a touch of repulsive irony.
It is a tragic irony that he was later serving as a member of the Yugoslav delegation negotiating treaties with Italy, Hungary, Austria and West and East Germany.
This picture adds to the habitual haunting charm a tragic irony of conception and a felicity of execution which give it a place apart among Burne-Jones's works.
It is a cruel and tragic irony that the break with the Stalinist pattern of socioeconomic development was not accompanied by a break with Stalinist methods in political and intellectual life.
Their most refined effort, the record featured guest appearances by Kate and Anna McGarrigle and garnered generally good reviews: critics hailed it as the " entire album of deeply tragic and beautiful love songs without irony, sarcasm, or violent resolution " of which Cave and band seemed capable, while also recognizing that the proceedings threatened to devolve " into schmaltz ".
One of the greatest hallmarks of Gottfried's style is his skillful use of irony, to both humorous and tragic effects.
In his depiction of the experiences of the main characters, Euripides frequently uses tragic irony for dramatic effect.
It was a tragic irony that the French bayonets that had created the conditions for a civil war with the occupation of Greek territories at this moment prevented one.
In Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town ( 1912 ), Leacock, renowned for his satirical wit, used tragic irony and astute insight in examining day-to-day, small-town life.
Various writers have noted the irony of his life ’ s tragic conclusion, given that The Seven Storey Mountain closes by admonishing the reader to “ learn to know the Christ of the burnt men ” ( see, e. g., Edward Rice, The Man in The Sycamore Tree, 1979 ; Rice was a close friend of Merton from his college years ).
tragic and play
He is presented as such in The Acharnians, where Aristophanes shows him to be living morosely in a precarious house, surrounded by the tattered costumes of his disreputable characters ( and yet Agathon, another tragic poet, is discovered in a later play, Thesmophoriazusae, to be living in circumstances almost as bizarre ).
In the Bacchae, he restores the chorus and messenger speech to their traditional role in the tragic plot, and the play appears to be the culmination of a regressive or archaizing tendency in his later works ( for which see Chronology below ).
The 20th-century agnostic playwright Robert Bolt portrayed Thomas More as the tragic hero of his 1960 play A Man for All Seasons.
In addition to these, Shakespeare also wrote a number of plays about English history, such as Richard II, which can be considered a tragedy, as the hero of the play exhibits many of Aristotle's definitions of what is required to obtain " tragic " status.
He said he " felt like there was a real story underneath was more fascinating and way more tragic " than the story presented to the public, and attempted to turn the idea into a play.
Joseph W. Houppert acknowledges that some critics have tried to cast Caesar as the protagonist, but that ultimately Brutus is the driving force in the play and is therefore the tragic hero.
It was named after the Trojan daughter of Calchas, a tragic heroine who appears in William Shakespeare's play Troilus and Cressida ( as well as in tales by Geoffrey Chaucer and others ).
In his play Peace, Aristophanes imagined that the tragic poet Sophocles had turned into Simonides: " He may be old and decayed, but these days, if you paid him enough, he'd go to sea in a sieve.
The tragic developments in the plot follow in part from the scorn the mother shows for her son's play.
Though the term is applied to a wide range of plays, some characteristics coincide in many of the plays: broad comedy, often similar to Vaudeville, mixed with horrific or tragic images ; characters caught in hopeless situations forced to do repetitive or meaningless actions ; dialogue full of clichés, wordplay, and nonsense ; plots that are cyclical or absurdly expansive ; either a parody or dismissal of realism and the concept of the " well-made play ".
* Unity of action meant that the play should be constructed around a single ' plot-line ', such as a tragic love affair or a conflict between honour and duty.
The château was lavish, refined, and dazzling to behold, but these characteristics proved tragic for its owner: the king had Fouquet arrested shortly after a famous fête that took place on 17 August 1661 where Molière's play ' Les Fâcheux ' debuted.
Most often seen in dramatic literature, the term can variously describe either a tragic play which contains enough comic elements to lighten the overall mood or, often, a serious play with a happy ending.
However, though it seems Richard views himself as completely in control, Lull suggests that Shakespeare is using Richard to state " the tragic conception of the play in a joke.
In 1938 she made her Broadway debut in the original staging of Thornton Wilder's play Our Town as Emily Webb, the tragic young woman who dies in childbirth.
Carousel was also revolutionary for its time — adapted from Ferenc Molnár's play Liliom, it was one of the first musicals to contain a tragic plot ; it also contained an extended ballet that was crucial to the plot, and several extended musical scenes containing both sung and spoken material, as well as dance.
In 1825 Stefan Stefanović, a Serbian writer living in the Austrian Empire wrote a tragic play called " The Death of Uroš V ", which drew inspiration from both facts and folk tradition about Uroš, including the aforementioned belief that he was killed by King Vukašin.
In Arthur Schopenhauer's The Art of Literature, he criticised Emilia Galotti as a play with a " positively revolting " end, an example of a poorly done tragic work.
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He is the stern guardian of the status quo who has raised the utilitarian structures of the age, and he is the revolutionary poet with a gun in his hand who writes a tragic apologetic to posterity for the men he has killed.
It is not between Euripides and Shakespeare that the western mind turns away from the ancient tragic sense of life.
The whole purpose of Man's Hope is to portray the tragic dialectic between means and ends inherent in all organized political violence -- and even when such violence is a necessary and legitimate self-defense of liberty, justice and human dignity.
This is the story of his last tragic voyage, as nearly as we are able -- or ever, probably, will be able -- to determine:
The new `` School For Wives '' was interpreted according to a principle that is becoming increasingly common in the playing of classic comedy -- the idea of turning some obviously ludicrous figure into a tragic character.
This retelling by Louis Zara of the brief, anguished life of Stephen Crane -- poet and master novelist at 23, dead at 28 -- is in novelized form but does not abuse its tragic subject.
David is also viewed as a tragic figure ; his acquisition of Bathsheba, and the loss of his son are viewed as his central tragedies.
His genre-bending inventiveness is shown above all in Alcestis, a blend of tragic and satyric elements.
What small story there is contains a chaste romance and lots of references to the lessons to be learned from " this strangely innocent but tragic creature.
Whether or not there is any force in that allegation, His Majesty's Government are resolved that on this occasion there shall be no such tragic misunderstanding.
Nowadays, the day is a national holiday in order to remember the tragic events and the people that were killed.
According to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, the " deep tension between the Kantian moral imperatives and a Nietzschean diagnosis of the modern cultural world is apparently what gives such a darkly tragic and agnostic shade to Weber's ethical worldview.
Victor is a tragic comedy character and sympathy is directed towards him as he becomes embroiled in complex misunderstandings, bureaucratic vanity and, at times, sheer bad luck.
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