The Anthropological Function of Xiler's Theories on Tragedy and Comedy

Xiler, a great world famous playwright who mainly writes tragedy, his theories on tragedy occupies a pivotal position in the history of western even of the world theatrical theories. He says that tragedy is a kind of aesthetics, which shows the conflict between the purpose of morals and the anti-purpose of nature or morals, that it gives people sharp sense of morals by affliction and that it is the centralized representation of loftiness, especially moral loftiness. Therefore, the anthropological function of tragedy lies in the full realization of human nature achieved by the conflict between purpose and anti-purpose. Xiler has not only expounded specially the anthropological function of tragedy, but also has done comparison between tragedy and comedy, from which he has drawn a conclusion: Comedy has more advantage in terms of the anthropological function to free the human beings and to intact the human nature. It's unquestioningly an epoch-making conclusion of the theatrical aesthetics.