... Macbeth the tragedy and Macbeth as a morality play. The question above states that the purpose of classical tragedies is to "purge anti social feeling" yet I do not believe this statement to be true. One doesn't have to look any further than Shakespeare's other great tragedies ... such as Othello to see that a classical tragedy needs neither moral nor underlying message. On the other hand, Macbeth, by many has always been seen as deviating from classical tragedy. While in the beginning both a tragic and moralistic interpretation of ... tragedies namely because it was written with an ul...

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... Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, a first novel by Ken Kesey published in 1962, is a contemporary tragedy describing the downfall of a rigidly administered ward in a mental institution led by the rebellion of a new admission. The work I have chosen to compare this novel to is the classic play by William Shakespeare, Hamlet. ... mother for remarrying so soon after his father's death and for selecting her late husband's brother, Claudius, as her second partner. In a witty statement to his closest friend Horatio, he expresses his indignation; "The funeral baked meats/ Did coldly furnish forth t...

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