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What are the features that make a Shakespearean tragedy? Where do they show up in plays like Othello, Hamlet, and Romeo and Juliet? This video helps identify these features (think murder, suicide, and betrayal) and define a Shakespearean tragedy.
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- 00:03
features of the shakespearian tragedy a la shmoop
- 00:07
you've had an absolutely wonderful day the sun is shining brightly
- 00:10
you have your health and you've witnessed no betrayals murders of course
- 00:14
suicides in the past few hours
- 00:16
sounds like you can you something to bring you down a bit finley interest you
Full Transcript
- 00:19
in a shakespearean tragedy deal
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more tragedy meanwhile europe
- 00:24
adult shakes tragedies are being called downers
- 00:27
hardly anyone makes it out of them alive and sometimes those who do don't really
- 00:31
deserved it
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or wish they had until like killing people
- 00:35
but we don't just read or watch them to become a horribly painfully depressed
- 00:39
that's just the side benefit i'm enjoying myself
- 00:42
really
- 00:44
in tragedy we can learn a lot about ourselves as human beings or esp rights
- 00:48
or pick seats or whatever you happen to be
- 00:52
by examining the darkest depths of human nature
- 00:57
we can learn what leads people to sometimes take such dire drastic
- 01:00
measures and hopefully uh... not go there ourselves unico lunch
- 01:07
one of the dreary is the most famous of shakespeare's tragedies is macbeth
- 01:12
she scares me
- 01:14
process you don't want to go through the drive-through atm it best they will not
- 01:18
give you a happy not
- 01:21
let's take a look at what shakespearian elements of tragedy pop up in this one
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first you've got your serious or some birthing
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the characters aren't spending a sunday afternoon at a waterpark reminiscing
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about good times and talking about how much they love one another
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instead the players all about what causes people to commit evil acts like
- 01:40
murder
- 01:41
occurred for instance
- 01:44
kabhi those long lines of the water park in the universe
- 01:47
shakespeare's tragedies also feature a character with a major flaw a looming
- 01:51
death
- 01:52
ambition is all well and good but stabbing everyone in your path isn't
- 01:56
really the way to get ahead in life
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not to mention that it's really going to dull your new said again tonight did you
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just daphne
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then we've got a protagonists who is destined for a downfall k
- 02:09
and it's not just because he's wearing those non patted slippers
- 02:12
three which is tell maggie b that he's going to be king although
- 02:16
he's the one who comes up with the action slash approach to snagging the
- 02:20
frog
- 02:21
the entire time we watch in creating more and more havoc
- 02:24
we can just sensitive skin and badly hurt
- 02:27
finally death along and by the final summons to shuffling off of the mortal
- 02:33
coil two
- 02:34
would be international attention
- 02:36
you can have a shakespearian tragedy without death anna lots of it
- 02:40
he didn't believe in characters being left with their thoughts to suffer and
- 02:43
while misery
- 02:46
they pretty much had to kick the bucket
- 02:49
we want tell you who or how many guys mainly because it would take all day
- 02:53
this don't get to attach to anyone and that's awful secular my only friend
- 02:58
online says here two years
- 03:05
more tragedy
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