Hamlet & Gilgamesh, Aristotle & Freud

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"The tragic hero comes from the Greek drama, as shown by the criticism of Aristotle in particular. This criticism was revived in the Renaissance period and came to be used as instructions for creating drama rather than a description of it as Aristotle intended. Tragedy in this conception is struggling against something over which we really have no control, and the tragedy develops from a recognition that the struggle will come to no good, leading to the resignation of the tragic hero to his or her fate and indeed even to their embracing that fate. The hero often knows his or her fate but still does not see it coming, as it were.
Hamlet is a play featuring a tragic hero who puzzles critics because he does not take action immediately to gain the revenge for his father's death as he is asked to do by his father's ghost(...)"

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