Shakespeare: Tragedy Class 101

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own
strength" (652).
Magnitude is another element in tragedy, found mainly in
characterization. During the Elizabethan and Greek era, tragedies revolved
around people of great importance as opposed to other ages where the
protagonists were ordinary men of inconsequential titles ("Tragedy" 306).
Hamlet, being a typical tragedy, evolves itself in the noble realms of
Denmark where he, the prince of Denmark, was usurped of his throne by the
marriage of his uncle and the Queen. Yelland said that magnitude is also
"evident in the large simplicity of the action, in the power and intensity
of the conflicts involved, and in the poetry and dignity of the expression"
(207). In essence, it is the pieces of the plays, united together, that
creates magnitude.
A tragedy without unity is a tragedy itself. Tragedy needs to
consist of a central idea in order to give the play meaning and purpose.
It needs to have a carefully "integrated" plot to weave in its incidents
(Yelland 207). Aristotle ...

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