Sentence examples for essential tragedy from inspiring English sources

Greta understands the essential tragedy of therapy.

Film versions, whether by Franco Zeffirelli or Baz Luhrmann, play fast and loose with the text, yet communicate the story's essential tragedy.

Graham cannot let go his Lambeg, nor Lindsey talk about her dad, or the essential tragedy of their circumstances will be lost; nor can Eric have a happy marriage or be discovered by the Glasgow School of Art; nor Jozef impulsively hop on the plane to Gdansk.

The essential tragedy is man's brief mortal life.

I believe Aristotle is right in his claim that plot is "the first essential of tragedy", and character takes the second place.

In this they conform to the theories of the first literary critic, Aristotle, who insisted that plot "is the first essential of tragedy, its lifeblood, so to speak, and character takes the second place".

"The humor is like a Trojan horse: it catches the audience off guard, connects them to the heart of the characters and speaks to the essential absurdity-tragedy of their situation".

It is essential that her tragedy is not overlooked.

The emptiness at the heart of this character is essential to the tragedy.

By its end, Mr. Hytner's "Othello" has met the most essential prerequisite of tragedy: you believe that what has happened to these people had to happen.

Cymbeline, who banishes Posthumus and treats his daughter cavalierly, may echo Lear's rashness, but he lacks the essential ingredient for tragedy: an inner life.