Date of Award
4-1935
Degree Type
Bachelors Essay
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts (BA)
Department
Literatures, Languages, and Cultures
First Advisor
Francis Ryan
Second Advisor
William J. Grace
Abstract
Tragedy is an imitation of an action that is serious, entire and of a certain magnitude and effecting through pity and terror a proper catharsis of the emotions. There is agitation of the emotions but also a purgation of them. Unity is derived from a central figure rather than from the structural form. The successful writer of tragedy wins sympathy at the end for the man who was great before he succumbed to his flaws. Where the action is real and serious and there is no chance of escape there is tragedy.
Recommended Citation
Shoemaker, Ruth, "Tragic Episodes in the “Aeneid” of Virgil" (1935). Bachelors’ Theses. 2131.
https://epublications.marquette.edu/bachelor_essays/2131
Comments
A thesis submitted to the Faculty of the College of Liberal Arts, Marquette University, in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Arts, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.