Most ancient tragedy had at its heart the contradiction between two morally justifiable positions. Aristotle begins defining tragedy as “imitation of actions of great import”; the actions themselves are motivated by a conflict of ideas. A few of examples: In these as well as many other cases action is pushed forward not simply by characters […]
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