Premium Content Inevitability and the Nature of Shakespeare's Tragedies
By Chris Hadfield - December 08, 2002
In Greek tragedy, inevitability plays an important role, portraying the protagonists as pawns of the fates, whose roles in the tragedy are distributed arbitrarily and without justice. The outcomes of these roles are decided before the play even begins, for example in Sophocles' Antigone, and thus any actions of the characters during the play are…
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