THE PROTAGONIST IN WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE’S

Abstract

Tragedy is a term broadly applied to literary, especially dramatic, representations of important and serious events, which end in a disastrous conclusion for the protagonist or chief character. More precise and detailed discussion of tragic form properly began with Aristotle’s classic analysis. He defined tragedy as: The imitation of an action that is and also, as having magnitude, complete in itself, in language with pleasurable accessories, each kind brought in separately in the parts of the work, in a dramatic, not in a narrative form; with incidents arousing pity and fear, wherewith to accomplish its catharsis of such emotions.