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Page 82
... character development , or can we only say that the true character , after momentary eclipse , shines forth again ? Lastly , not a few modern critics have found the chief charm of the play with Emerson in the beautiful descriptions of ...
... character development , or can we only say that the true character , after momentary eclipse , shines forth again ? Lastly , not a few modern critics have found the chief charm of the play with Emerson in the beautiful descriptions of ...
Page 95
... character and destiny . Fate , the prime mover of ancient tragedy , is no longer felt as a capricious external power , but as the inevi- table outcome of character and the unavoidable con- dition of life . Tragic pathos is refined to a ...
... character and destiny . Fate , the prime mover of ancient tragedy , is no longer felt as a capricious external power , but as the inevi- table outcome of character and the unavoidable con- dition of life . Tragic pathos is refined to a ...
Page 116
... character develops during the action of the poem ; the others simply show their character , he alone grows and ripens . Distance in space has some- what the effect of distance in time , so that in tragedy the heroes are either in far ...
... character develops during the action of the poem ; the others simply show their character , he alone grows and ripens . Distance in space has some- what the effect of distance in time , so that in tragedy the heroes are either in far ...
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