TRAGIC FALLACY

Tragic Fallacy (3, 4)

1.      Name the two tragedies compared by Krutch in Tragic Fallacy:

Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Ibsen’s Ghosts

2.      Which work does Krutch mention as a modern tragedy?

Ibsen’s Ghosts

3.      What is entrusted up on Hamlet in Shakespeare’s play?

He is confides to restore the moral order of the universe.

4.      What did Hamlet achieve at the end?

He died, not as a failure, but as a success.

5.      What is the major variance in Ibsen’s tragedy?

The prince and gods are exchanged for invalids and diseases respectively.

6.      Name the tragic heroes mentioned by Krutch in Tragic Fallacy:

Hamlet and Oswald Alving

7.      What is Elsinore?

Elsinore is a city in Denmark.

8.      Skien is a city in Norway.

9.      Of the two tragic characters who portrays reality?

Oswald Alving

10. What does Ibsen’s tragedy represent?

It is merely an expression of our despair.

11. What does ancient tragedy concern about?

It is exclusive with kings and courts.

12. Ancient tragic writers believed easily in greatness.

13. How does Shakespeare present the characters in his play?

He presents his characters with robes, crowns and jewels.

14. Any modern attempt to dress characters in robes ends in comic incongruity.

15. What kind of language did Shakespeare use in his plays?

Bombastic language

16. What is the function of a true tragedy?

It purges the soul by reconciling man to his woes.

17. Who are the feeble descendants of the tragic writers?

Romantic writers

18. Romantic writers link art with nature.

19. Who is Seneca?

Roman stoic philosopher

20. Seneca followed the footsteps of Sophocles and Dryden.

21. Who is Sophocles?

One of the three ancient Greek tragedians

22. Who is the author of All for Love?

John Dryden

23. Who is the last of the great philosophers to attempt a tragic justification of life?

Nietzsche

24. Who is Nietzsche?

German philosopher

25. What is the famous dogma of Nietzsche?

Life is good because it is painful.

26. Who is a superman?

A hypothetical being

27. What is Uebermensch?

It means superman, the term was first used by Nietzsche.

28. Othello is accepted because of its grandeur.

29. Once tragic spirit was the living faith which helped in writing tragedies.

30. What is the famous phrase of Santayana about poetry?

“Religion which is no longer believed”

31. Which art is surviving at present according to Krutch?

Poetry

 Submitted by,

V.Aslin Judit

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