What is CLASSICAL TRAGEDY ?
What is CLASSICAL TRAGEDY ? Possibly the classical tragedy appears in Greece in the fifth BC. Contradiction happens when it is put by Allardyce Nicoll that tragedy appears much earlier in Egypt, after that in India. However, the text of the tragedy first finds out in Athens. In ancient Greece, it came to worship Dionysus, the god of vegetation. Tragic plays happened then before the altar of the god. The word ‘tragedy’ comes from the Greek ‘tragodor’. The word ‘Tragos’ means ‘he-goat’. A chorus was held in front of the altar of the god and goats were offered to the ‘Dionysus’. Greek tragedy was spirited especially instelling religious themes. God was all powerful and could shape human destiny. It could control human action. Thus human action and suffering, fate and fatalism were , probably, the matter of treatment of Greek Tragedy in classical tragedy. In ‘Oedipus Tyrannus’ by Sophocles, we see fatalism. Oedipus has to suffer much due to heinous sins,...