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The main character of Shakespeare's tragedies--richly-spun plot

Wang Yu-min

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Based on the definition of the and the important elements that make up of a wellwritten in Aristotle's Poetics,mainly lays stress on the which is the core and goal in a to show the charm of Shakespeare's tragedies.By analyzing the construction and characteristics of the plots in Shakespeare's four wellknown tragedies such as the comples construction instead of the simple one in which the reversal is continous but with recognition or peripety or both,the particular pleasure that is different from that of the melody or other plays by the acts that are necessarily the work of persons who are near or dear(close blood kin)to one another:fear and pity,and the skillfullyspun arrangement of the plot,the Aristotle's ideas that plot is the soul and heart of tragedy is fully and richly illustrated and realized in Shakespeare's great tragedies.This is one of the important reasons why Shakespeare's great tragedies outlive his age.

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Based on the definition of the and the important elements that make up of a wellwritten in Aristotle's Poetics,mainly lays stress on the which is the core and goal in a to show the charm of Shakespeare's tragedies.By analyzing the construction and characteristics of the plots in Shakespeare's four wellknown tragedies such as the comples construction instead of the simple one in which the reversal is continous but with recognition or peripety or both,the particular pleasure that is different from that of the melody or other plays by the acts that are necessarily the work of persons who are near or dear(close blood kin)to one another:fear and pity,and the skillfullyspun arrangement of the plot,the Aristotle's ideas that plot is the soul and heart of tragedy is fully and richly illustrated and realized in Shakespeare's great tragedies.This is one of the important reasons why Shakespeare's great tragedies outlive his age.

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Based on the definition of the and the important elements that make up of a wellwritten in Aristotle's Poetics,mainly lays stress on the which is the core and goal in a to show the charm of Shakespeare's tragedies.By analyzing the construction and characteristics of the plots in Shakespeare's four wellknown tragedies such as the comples construction instead of the simple one in which the reversal is continous but with recognition or peripety or both,the particular pleasure that is different from that of the melody or other plays by the acts that are necessarily the work of persons who are near or dear(close blood kin)to one another:fear and pity,and the skillfullyspun arrangement of the plot,the Aristotle's ideas that plot is the soul and heart of tragedy is fully and richly illustrated and realized in Shakespeare's great tragedies.This is one of the important reasons why Shakespeare's great tragedies outlive his age.

Key concepts: Plot (graphics), Tragedy (event), Pity, Pleasure, Poetics, Character (mathematics), Literature, Soul

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