The Living Art of Greek Tragedy

McDonald, Marianne

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“…Second, Antigone, in the Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion, is mentioned in the clearest embodiment of the divine forces of family and community life: "The collision between the two highest moral powers is set forth in a plastic fashion in that supreme and absolute example of tragedy, Antigone." Finally, it is also mentioned in The Philosophy of Fine Arts on opposition between these divine powers, Hegel once again isolates the Antigone as "one of the most sublime, and in every respect most consummate works of art human efforts ever produced" (McDonald, 2003). Further, Hegel's theory of life and art explains that 'art is similar to life,' and this so applicable to Mahfouz and Hemingway as well.…”

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Tragedy and the Tragic: A Study of Ernst Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms and Naguib Mahfouz’s The Beginning and the End

Chelihi¹,

Azmi²,

Kaur³

et al. 2018

IJEL

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This paper is a comparative study between Ernst Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms and Naguib Mahfouz’s The Beginning and the End, paralleled with the authors’ concepts of tragic vision; based on the development of the theory of tragedy from Aristotle to Hegel as well as the personal philosophy of life as tragedy of both authors. Based on the researcher knowledge, tragedy concept in the selected novels is rarely and insufficiently highlighted by few scholars and critics. Moreover, it is a comparison of novels from different cultures—Arabic literature and literature in English—in order to bridge the gap between them. The novels are stories where every day moral dilemmas often present profound paradoxes with which heroes and heroines must deal. Tragedy, in the same vein, is such a paradoxical story where we have to deal at any rate with our everyday moral dilemmas, where we are sometimes called upon to make difficult choices not between right and wrong, but between what we might define as two rights. Hegelian concept of tragedy focused on dissension and war of dichotomies between good and bad, as well as what is right and what is wrong. The tragic elements in the two novels make them Hegelian tragedies par excellence.

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confidence: 99%