المأساة الكلاسيكية و المأساة الحديثة : الاختلاف و التشابه

الملخص EN

Even though the word catastrophe is frequently utilized freely to portray any sort of calamity or incident, it more absolutely refers to a work of craftsmanship that tests with high truth questions concerning the part of man within the universe.

A tragedy is a drama with a tragic and depressing conclusion.

The term "tragedy" is used to describe a serious, dramatic work in which a heroic character encounters or creates dreadful and awe-inspiring occurrences.

Tragedy has gone through time from Greece through the Middle-Eastern and western societies into modern shapes of English.

The tragedy is characterized as a genuine play (or other literary work) that portrays the deplorable destruction and passing of a central character, the hero.

In this paper, the researcher tries to make a comparison between classical tragedy and modern tragedy, also to trace the characteristics and features of tragedy in both epochs.

I also try to trace the features of a tragic hero in both periods to show the similarities and differences between them by taking two examples; Sophocles' Oedipus as an example for classical tragedy, and Henrik Ibsen's Hedda Gabler as an example for modern tragedy.