Analysis Of Veiwpoints On Tragedy Essay Research — страница 2

tragic character, and his interaction with society. Tragic man has the obvious options that most people pick when faced with a cituation but a tragic man picks a different coarse. Sewall says that tragic man, “protests: he pits himself in some way against whatever, in the heavens above and in the earth beneath, seems to him to be wrong, oppressive, or personally thwarting” (Sewall, 172). Tragic man accepts that what he does is terrible, but he feels he must do it. The tragic characters actions must affect his environment including the people that surround him. Revealing some hidden truth. And in the end through his experiences the tragic character is raised above the other characters, and normal people. Of all the viewpoints taken on tragedy, and the tragic man, I value

Miller’s view the most. I can’t understand why Aristotle insists that the tragic man must be of noble standing. I appreciate the idea that Miller puts forth, that the common man can be tragic, and it is through his tragedy that, “the character gains ‘size,’ the tragic stature which is spuriously [(falsely)] attached to the royal or the high-born in our minds” (Miller, 17). While the other authors’ statements could be interpreted to say that tragedy can apply to the common man the fact that Miller says it most outright makes me value his article the most.