tragic stuff i can't rmbr lol

susan sontag quote abt suffering in death of a salesman

‘to set sufferings alongside the sufferings of another people was to compare them.. it is intolerable to have one’s own sufferings twinned with anybody elses’

metaphysical ideas of keats

• memento mori (nature as a conceit, time). ‘that drop of blood is my death-warrant; - i must die

• free will, supernatural love

• mortality, gods and existence

edgar madness

declaration of egregious popish impostures

nothingness and madness

gloucester - nihilistic, therefore is nothing symbolised by his blindness

kent and edgar- existentialist, cuz they take their fall from power and make something better out of their life

laer - absurdist, initially nihilistic but now recognises and loves the nothingness

romantic tragedy conventions

• not controlled by fate

• nietzsche ; society split into apollonian order and dionysian excess of pleasure

gothic emotional surplus

grief enough to kill, increased pathos

keats contextual points

• esoteric role of women

• nietzschean ideas apollonion vs dionysian

• metaphysical litaray elements

• gothic literary elements

death of a salesman contextual points

• pilgrims, change in american values

• collectivisim vs individualism

• excess of suffering ‘to set sufferings alongside the sufferings of another people was to compare them.. it is intolerable to have one’s own sufferings twinned with anybody elses’

• ambiguity of tragedy

king lear contextual points

• plato’s theory of forms

• servitude and chain of being

• lady fortuna and lady justice

• aristotelean vs shakesepearean

• existentialism , nihilism , absurdism

• nous

what did plato say about forms?

• forms are timeless, abstract, non physical ideals existing outside of reality, that reality works around

• physical quantity that makes an object an object

goneril’s characterisation

snake hsssssss

what is nous?

the mind’s ability to determine what is real , separate yet linked to sensory perception