Associate Professor, S.V. College of Engineering and Technology, Chittoor, Andhra Pradesh, India
Online published on 11 July, 2017.
Tragedy is an eminent form of literature. Aristotle deals with tragedy in his famous discourse Poetics calling it synonymous to poetry. Aristotle was perhaps the first important writer who discussed on tragedy in a serious and meaningful way. Poetics is a kind of retaliation of Plato's famous objection to art and the artist. Aristotle's concept of tragedy has been a source of several other thinkers of the following generations. Aristotle finds the source of tragedy in the character himself. ‘Character is the destiny’ is his famous pronouncement. Stoicism is an important trait of the Aristotelian tragic hero.
Hemingway demonstrates the pessimism with the deterministic view of life. His concept of tragedy is formulated by several factors, which were responsible for modernism as a literary concept. Most of the novels and short stories of Ernest Hemingway are tragic. He is perhaps the greatest maker of tragedy of the century, considering the range of tragic vision he displays and a variety of characters he creates.
Protagonist, infliction, substantial, naturalism, determinism, frustration, brutality, disillusionment, catastrophe, determination, confrontation, aphorism, simultaneously, brutality, indiscrimination, subsequent, relinquishment, reconciliation, corruption, incapable, inescapable
