Volume : 10, Issue : 1, JAN 2024

AN ANALYSIS OF SHAKESPEARE'S TRAGIC HEROES: (SPECIFIC STUDY OF MACBETH, HAMLET, OTHELLO AND KING LEAR)

DR. ANAND KUMAR MINJ

Abstract

William Shakespeare is highly appreciated as the greatest writer in English. His writing style of the time Derived from the usual style. He is best known for his work as a playwright. He wrote tragedies, jokes and historical plays. Hamlet, The Tempest, Othello, King Lear and Macbeth are most famous for his tragedies. He died. almost 400 years ago, but people all over the world still celebrate his work. Venetian merchant, Romeo and Juliet, The Tempest, Othello, King Lear, Midsummer Night's Dream, Macbeth and Hamlet Three main types. The rest are all subtypes, and there are subtypes in the subtypes as well. The three major genres are Prose, Drama, and Poetry.

In this study, I have attempted to interpret Shakespeare's tragic heroes by casting light on their attitudes towards perfection. After what has been so famously said by Aristotle about the hero of high estate and by Bradley about a 'world travailing for perfection, not to mention the innumerable thinkers over the ages who have chewed the cud of the perfectibility of man, the subject of perfection in the tragedies of Shakespeare, to my mind, is very appealing . It will be a matter of great pleasure if this study arouses the reader's interest and is of some use to him. My very humble endeavour is to focus upon the relation of action, which is eternally tragic for a Shakespearean tragic hero; with circumstances in which they are placed and to justify that their magnitude of punishment is, however, greater than their magnitude of crime.

The present study is the refined observation of the tragic character with all their inherent virtues and vices, to bring to light their ideal tendencies transforming into degraded ones.

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