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Conventions of a revenge tragedy? (1 Viewer)
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roseangel
Take the Money and Run
CONVENTIONS OF REVENGE TRAGEDY (God, I never thought I'd have to see these again)
Plot
Vengeance quest
Violence (not needed to be SEEN in Ancient Greece, but had to be IMPLIED)
No option for the hero (sometimes acting for another)
Madness (real or feigned)
Tragic fall of hero (the fall can only be defined by context- for Medea her fate may not seem so bad to us today, but back then being without a city state and being a woman without a husband/children to define her would have been really bad)
Congnizance of the entirety of the above
Setting
Discordant society
Supernatural involvement (again, defined by context)
Characters
Righteous hero, isolated and vulnerable (though I'd seriously question that of all the set RT texts)
Conspiring groups (usually against the hero but not ALWAYS)
Highest order is corrupt (or simply unable to help the hero)
Langauge Style
Emotive, melodramatic
Emphatic statements
Insults
Symbolism
Themes
Ethical issues regarding revenge (is it our right or should we leave it to God- reached its height during Elizabethan/Jacobean period)
Natural order versus universal harmony
Societal comment
Plot
Vengeance quest
Violence (not needed to be SEEN in Ancient Greece, but had to be IMPLIED)
No option for the hero (sometimes acting for another)
Madness (real or feigned)
Tragic fall of hero (the fall can only be defined by context- for Medea her fate may not seem so bad to us today, but back then being without a city state and being a woman without a husband/children to define her would have been really bad)
Congnizance of the entirety of the above
Setting
Discordant society
Supernatural involvement (again, defined by context)
Characters
Righteous hero, isolated and vulnerable (though I'd seriously question that of all the set RT texts)
Conspiring groups (usually against the hero but not ALWAYS)
Highest order is corrupt (or simply unable to help the hero)
Langauge Style
Emotive, melodramatic
Emphatic statements
Insults
Symbolism
Themes
Ethical issues regarding revenge (is it our right or should we leave it to God- reached its height during Elizabethan/Jacobean period)
Natural order versus universal harmony
Societal comment