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It argues that every character, whether king or clown, evaluates life through a distinct perspective, producing remarks of deep relevance to the playwright’s versatility. 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It reveals that Shakespeare’s plays are full of conflicting thoughts, and expression is so convincing that it is not possible to plan a system of philosophy out of them. Each character, from the king to the clown, from the most highly intellectual to the simpleton, judges life from his own point of view and says something that is so deep and appropriate at the playwright ’s versatility of genius. So is the case with the conception of tragedy.  \nKeywords: Tragedies, comparative analysis, Shakespeare, plays, downfall, action, pity and fear  \n1. Literature Review  \nProf. Thondrick (1908) says that Shakespeare uses elements of tragedy according to Aristotle ’s definition of tragedy. It could be first examined what Aristotle says in this context.  \nIn Aristotle’s Poetics (1961), tragedy is defined as the imitation of an action that is serious, has magnitude, complete in itself, in language with pleasurable accessories, each kind brought in a narrative form with incidents arousing pity and fear wherewith to accomplish its catharsis of such emotions.  \nShakespeare in his earlier tragedies was, undoubtedly, influenced by Seneca but not in his major tragedies as Macbeth, Hamlet, Othello and King Lear but it is said that there would be no Elizabethan tragedy if there were no Seneca because Shakespearean themes are revenge, blood and thunder, rant and bombast madness, supernaturalism and sensationalism like that of Senecan plays. A. C. Bradley (2007) says that a Shakespearean tragedy may be called “a story of exceptional calamity of hero and heroine”.  \nRomeo and Juliet can’t be called a representative Shakespearean tragedy because Romeo and Juliet have no tragic flaw and only the tempest of circumstances wrecks their life. In Romeo and Juliet, the hero and the heroine are equally powerless. In Shakespeare’s major tragedies, the hero is the central figure and the heroine fades in the twilight. As in Macbeth, the heroine appears only for a while and then she is pushed into the background. Some of the history plays of Shakespeare can also be called tragedies like Richard II and Richard III.  \nThe action of tragedy should be the outcome of the conflict of will or will with circumstances. Shakespearean tragedy is always the outcome of conflict and conflict is always between new and his external world. The reason of this conflict is that man is not a paragon of perfection. Everyman has a tragic flaw as Cassius believes that everyman is responsible for his downfall although chances, accidents and fate are important to a great extent.  \nThe fault dear Brutus is not in our stars but in ourselves that we are underlings (Julius Caesar, I, ii, 140-141)  \nConflicts both external and internal are the crux of Shakespearean tragedies as Evans (1999) says, “no conflict no drama”.  \nShakespeare’s heroes possess errors which bring their doom. In Thompson and Taylor words (2006), Lear is violent, drastic effect, serious minded, Macbeth is too ambitious, Othello is jealous and Hamlet indulges in the procrastination, his mother ’s incestuous marriage shuns him and he cries out:  \nhow weary, stale and flat and unprofitable, seem to me all the us","cbCaigwtEXTB89Dr","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaigwtEXTB89Dr","pdf",125663,"English","# Literature Review\n## Aristotle’s Poetics and the definition of tragedy\n## Seneca’s influence and Elizabethan tragedy\n## Tragic conflict, tragic flaw, and character errors\n## Chance, accident, and fate in major tragedies","[{\"question\":\"What is the article’s focus regarding Shakespearean tragedies?\",\"answer\":\"The article analyzes Shakespearean tragedies and compares key ideas about tragedy, emphasizing conflicting thoughts and convincing expression across the plays.\"},{\"question\":\"How does Aristotle define tragedy in the article?\",\"answer\":\"Aristotle’s Poetics defines tragedy as the imitation of a serious action with magnitude and completeness, using language and narrative incidents that arouse pity and fear to achieve catharsis.\"},{\"question\":\"What causes downfall in Shakespearean tragedies according to the text?\",\"answer\":\"Downfall is linked to tragic flaws and errors in characters, along with conflicts between will and circumstances and the role of chance, accident, and fate.\"}]","Comparative Analysis of the Concept of Shakespearean Tragedies - Vol. 5 No. 1 - Abstract | PDF"]