For 1000s of old ages, calamity was used in theaters to entertain people, to learn them a lesson and to honour the Gods. Some of these calamities left a grade in history and affected the English literature that we know today. Oedipus the King and Romeo and Juliet were some of these calamities. However, calamities have different and common facets. What are the facets you can happen in both Romeo and Juliet and Oedipus the King and what eventually defines calamity?
The facets of calamity that are different in Romeo and Juliet and Oedipus the King are the beginning of the calamity and the phase force. Romeo and Juliet s calamity came from love and passion. In this calamity we find that love was behind this dramatic stoping, the endless love that Romeo had for Juliet. Romeo loved Juliet really much despite the fact that their households were enemies and because of this love they were able to kill themselves in order to be together, hence, if Romeo was still in love with Rosaline none of this calamity would hold happened. However, in the drama of Oedipus the King the calamity came from ignorance, Oedipus didn T know that the male monarch and queen of Corinth were non his true parents, that s why he left Corinth after cognizing that he is traveling to kill father and kip with his female parent. He ended up in Thebes were he killed king Liaus and married queen Jocasta, his female parent. Jocasta besides contributed to the calamity because she believed that her boy is dead and don T know that Oedipus is her boy. Therefore if Oedipus knew that Jocasta was his female parent, he wouldn Ts have married her and this calamity would non hold happened. In add-on, Sophocles in Oedipus the King used force, decease and self-destruction but all these actions were off-stage. The chief intent of this off-stage force is that these calamities were in award of the Gods and they were treated as if they were spiritual festivals were force is non permitted. This appears when Jocasta hangs herself in her room without anyone visual perception or cognizing her decease until a courier from the castle state us what happened page 235 line 1363: the queen is dead. However, in Romeo and Juliet, W. Shakespeare used horror and blood on-stage. His calamities were more modern than those presented by Sophocles and they were non made to honour the Gods, hence, they were non treated as spiritual rites and force was permitted on-stage. This appears in the book of Romeo and Juliet when Mercutio and Tybalt got into a battle and it ended with Tybalt killing Mercutio on phase and in forepart of the audience s eyes. In my sentiment, off-stage force must be used in calamities more often than on-stage. The off-stage force gives the reader the freedom to conceive of the scene of decease the manner he wants and every bit cruel as he wants. Off-stage force was more effectual for me, it helped me make my ain image of Oedipus taking his eyes out instead than reading the scene of Romeo imbibing the toxicant in the grave where everything is described for you ; you merely necessitate to construct a image based on your reading.
The facets of calamity that are common to the two dramas are decease and the presence of a tragic hero. In the two calamities we can happen decease as a common facet. Death is considered one of the chief facets of calamity. In Oedipus, decease can be found at the intersection where Oedipus killed the guards and the male monarch Liaus and besides in the room of Jocasta where she hanged herself. In the drama of Romeo and Juliet decease seem more often. After the decease of Mercutio by Tybalt, Romeo commits slaying by killing Tybalty and avenging his friend. Besides Romeo stabs Count Paris and kills him in the grave of Juliet where he poisoned himself. And eventually Juliet commits suicide after seeing Romeo dead in her weaponries. In add-on, the presence of a tragic hero was common to these two dramas. First of all a tragic hero is a individual of baronial birth or of high standing who meets with a tragic defect or a reversal of luck that lead to his devastation and his ruin. In Oedipus the King, Oedipus was the boy of king Liaus and queen Jocasta the swayer of Thebes and was raised as the boy of the male monarch and queen of Corinth. Therefore he came from a baronial birth. Oedipus met his tragic defect through ignorance, when he started to oppugn the shepherd and the chorus about the liquidator of king Liaus and discovered that he is the liquidator and Jocasta is his female parent. That eventually leads to his ruin when he stabbed out his eyes and left Thebes. That s what makes Oedipus a tragic hero. In parallel, in the drama of Romeo and Juliet, Romeo had a high place. Montague was a really affluent household even Capulet respected Romeo when he was in their party and male parent Capulet told Tybalt page 53 line64-65: content thee, soft coz, allow him entirely ; a bears him like a portly gentleman: . Romeo met his tragic defect besides through ignorance when he got the message about Juliet s decease and did non cognize that this was a bogus decease. That eventually led to his devastation and decease by poisoning himself so he could be with his ain love, Juliet. Romeo in his last minutes, discovered that Juliet was non truly dead, her decease was bogus, and that he rushed into doing such a determination of poisoning himself. When he drank the toxicant Juliet was waking up and he got to see her for a minute and so he died.
Finally, calamity can be defined the same manner as the autumn season. This season starts with good and ends with bad conditions when everything green dies and turns to brown. That s the manner all calamities goes, they start with something beautiful traveling on in the drama than the tragic defect appears and the hero will recognize the truth. After that the tragic hero gets his minute of compunction, penalty, and the drama leaves a katharsis, purging of emotional tensenesss, in the audience. Tragedy appears clearly in the two dramas, because they have a beautiful beginning, Oedipus as the male monarch of Thebes and Romeo in love with Juliet, but they face a tragic defect, when Oedipus knew the truth about his unnatural relationship and Romeo knew about the decease of Juliet, so they both got their penalty, Oedipus put out his eyes and Rome died. Finally it is clear that everyone felt commiseration and sorry for the two heroes. The presence of all these standards makes those two dramas tragic 1s and the most read dramas in the universe.
In decision, Romeo and Juliet and Oedipus the King have a batch of common facets because they are both considered calamities. However it is excessively difficult to happen two indistinguishable individuals on Earth hence, these calamities are non wholly the same, they have different facets and that s what gives each calamity its ain importance.
