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A dramatic form that reveals human limitation, fate, and the inevitability of tragic suffering, converting sorrow and pity into wisdom, empathy, and morality.
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Tragedy
A dramatic form that reveals human limitation, fate, and the inevitability of tragic suffering, converting sorrow and pity into wisdom, empathy, and morality.
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Jiang closes by saying religious people would frame redemption as possible only through suffering, pain, and tragedy.
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normative
Jiang concludes that the great tragedy of the game is that people believe short-term success will produce future happiness even though it will not.
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Athenian theater is described as central to Athenian life and as a practice of education and enlightenment, not only entertainment.
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Through Shelley, Jiang presents tragedy as a mirror in which spectators see themselves under a disguise of circumstance and encounter what they love, admire, and would become.
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Hubris is identified as the great killer in tragedy: Achilles, Agamemnon, Patroclus, and Hector are presented as figures who suffer or die because of hubris.
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Jiang states a reversal of greatness: the greater a person is, the more they suffer from hubris, which can only lead to tragedy.
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diagnosis
Jiang says watching tragedy reveals a fundamental truth about human nature: all humans are going to be tragic.
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Oedipus is Jiang's example of tragedy as fate rather than simple moral guilt: in Sophocles, Jiang says Oedipus did nothing wrong, yet fate and accident still destroy him.
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"...can only find redemption through suffering and through pain and through tragedy, all right? Okay? Any more questions, guys? Okay. All right. I'll see..."
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"So that's the great tragedy of this game, okay? Does it make sense? Okay, good. Any more questions? Okay, good. So we'll continue this..."
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"that oh it's hubris that leads to tragedy and therefore it will make you a much more humble person okay this is what we..."
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"...very simple idea the idea is that when you watch a tragedy okay when you observe a tragedy you're observing a fundamental truth about..."
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"...he goes into exile okay and if you actually read the tragedy by Sophocles he did nothing wrong it was it was just fate..."
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"giving you the theory um we'll see how persia shelley was a very famous british romantic poet how he how he explains this okay..."
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"...them into moral people with ambition with creativity all right the tragedies of athenian poets are as mirrors in which a spectator beholds himself..."
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"...the tumult of familiar life okay so the idea of greek tragedy is um epiphany and catharsis so if you look at uh greek..."
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"And also the play, Bacchae, it's a direct attack on the idea of theater itself and democracy, OK? But I don't see it that..."
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"Hubris. Arrogance. And this is what the Greek tried, this is what the Greek playwrights focused a lot on. What they discovered is things..."
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