Aristotelian and Modern Tragedy in Henry James’ Daisy Miller (1878) and Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House (1879)
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2022
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Mouloud Mammeri University OF Tizi-Ouzou
Abstract
This work is a comparative study which explores the major differences between Classical and
Modern tragedies in Henry James’s Daisy Miller and Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House. The
aim of this study is apply Aristotle’s text entitled Poetics (355 BC) and Arthur Miller’s theory
Tragedy and the Common Man (1949) on the two cited works. We have reached the
following results: both works can be analysed from two different perspectives, the classical
and the modern. We have studied the two cited works from The Classical tragedy by relying
on Aristotle’s Poetics as well as the modern tragedy by relying on Arthur Miller’s Tragedy
and The Common Man. Our discussion is divided into two chapters. The first chapter deals
with the classical tragedy in both works. We presented the elements of tragedy according to
Aristotle which are plot, character, pity and fear or catharsis, thought and diction. Whereas
the second chapter discusses the modern tragedy according to Arthur Miller in which we
presented the tragic heroes as ordinary people and their struggle for dignity. Additionally, the
effect of social dominance over the main characters in the modern world is also developed.
We have highlighted how modern tragedy can offer optimism despite it’s tragic ending.
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47p. ; 30cm.+(cd)
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Littérature et approche interdisciplinaires