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difference between tragedy and epic
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Topic: Different between Tragedy and Epic
Name: Nikunj BhattiClass: M.A. Sem-1Enrolment No: 14101005Roll No. : 19Email id: [email protected]: 2014/15
Submitted To: Department of English M.K. Bhav. University
What is Tragedy ?
“Tragedy, then, is an imitation of an action that is serious, complete, and of a certain magnitude; in the language embellished with each kind of artistic ornament ,the several kinds of being found in separate parts of the play; in the form of action, not of narrative; through pity and fear effecting the proper purgation-catharsis of these and similar emotions.”
What is an Epic? The epic is a long narrative poem on a serious
subject representing characters of heroic stature in adventures of great historical, legendary, or religious significance.
Epic = Heroic Drama + Long Narrative
Length
Plot
Marvelous and
irrational
Subject matter
MetreImportant points
of Epic and Tragedy
Length
Unity of Time, Place, Action
Action
PlaceTime
Epic has Hexameter.
Tragedy possesses many meters like Iambic pentameter, trochaic, tetrameter.
Metre
It deals with the fortune of people
It presents the life of an individual
Subject matter
Marvelous and irrational ( Low of probability and necessity )
Plot
• The plot of Epic consists of plots of many tragedies.
• Plot of epic and tragedy may have similarity in complexity, but epic’s plot is more episodic then then tragedy.
• Epic is the story of the past.
• The drama is a representation of a story in the present.