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Hamlet/Raskolnikov Similarities

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•The two great eras of tragedy were Ancient Greece andElizabethan England. The difference between the two eras oftragic greatness lies in the Greek emphasis of fate andjustice versus the Christian possibility of salvation andgrace.•Tragedy consists of pairs of opposites: pity and terror;justice and love; paradoxes, antitheses.•Tragedy asks the ontological (speculating the nature ofbeing – human nature) question: “Is ‘being’ good or evil?”•Tragedy is composed of three parts:1. fall - terrible deed2. suffering - stage marked by stasis, murkiness, notknowing3.reconciliation and self-knowledge

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