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Page 153
... hero and the society he brings into being . In comedy ( representing the season of spring ) , the hero appears in a society controlled by obstructing char- acters and succeeds in wresting it from their grasp . The movement of comedy of ...
... hero and the society he brings into being . In comedy ( representing the season of spring ) , the hero appears in a society controlled by obstructing char- acters and succeeds in wresting it from their grasp . The movement of comedy of ...
Page 164
... heroes make free choices and are free time after time to turn back , but they move toward their doom as relent- lessly as did Oedipus . The total tragic statement , however , is not limited to the fate of the hero . He is but the centre ...
... heroes make free choices and are free time after time to turn back , but they move toward their doom as relent- lessly as did Oedipus . The total tragic statement , however , is not limited to the fate of the hero . He is but the centre ...
Page 168
... hero toward his tragic course . The goal of Nirvana is the extinction of those impulses , the quieting of the passions , a kind of quietus in which worldly existence ceases . Western tragedy celebrates life , and the tragic hero clings ...
... hero toward his tragic course . The goal of Nirvana is the extinction of those impulses , the quieting of the passions , a kind of quietus in which worldly existence ceases . Western tragedy celebrates life , and the tragic hero clings ...
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