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Medieval Era
Major theme: religion
Renaissance Era
Major themes: humanism
Enlightenment/Neoclassical Era
Major theme: reverence/appreciation for logic
Elizabethan Era
Major themes: love, ambition, hierarchy
Restoration Era
Major theme: human reason
Romantic Era
Major theme: power of imagination, nature, individuality
Victorian Era
Major themes: life and struggles of the working class
Modern Era
Major themes: breaking away from ordinary social values, responding to industrialisation and urbanization
Postmodern Era
Major themes: breaking away from conventional writing techniques, questioning philosophical foundations
Hamartia
the tragic flaw of a tragic hero
Peripeteia
a reversal of fortune
Anagnorisis
tragic hero’s realization of tragic flaw
Catastrophe
everything going wrong, everyone dead
Catharsis
release of emotion at the end of a tragedy
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