The tragedy as a literary genre and the denial of "poetic justice" in the third book of the World as Will and Representation, of Schopenhauer
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Tragedy, Poetic Justice, Original SinAbstract
The literary genre of tragedy is pointed out by Schopenhauer, in Chapter 51 of The World as Will and Representation, as the most perfect worldview translation feature of his philosophy. Chapter quoted Schopenhauer criticizes the literary device called "poetic justice" pointing it as a resource that completely undermine the essence of this genre. This article presents an analysis of the arguments of Schopenhauer against using the feature of poetic justice, in addition to presenting, in general, the thesis of Schopenhauer on the genre of tragedy in relation to his philosophy. For Schopenhauer, the real tragedy meaning lies in the profound understanding that heroes do not atone for the mistakes made in the dramatic action, but they pay with the characteristic of the genre end fatalism, by itself original sin, that is, the blame for the very existence.
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