The Implication Of Shakespeare's Tragedies

This essay mainly studies the tragedy creation of the famous dramatist Shakespeare during the Renaissance, focuses on the thoughts of Shakespeare as a late writer of the Renaissance, analyses his deep thinking to the early humanism in the light of specific creation, and delineates the development of the humanism in Europe during the Renaissance.The thought of Shakespeare's tragedies is very rich, it shows the real conditions of the common nature which includes both kindness and evil through the stirring tragedy theme. The implication of Shakespeare's works is very deep, and the contents of his works concern about the whole social life, which is subtly delineated through the main figures and their inner world.Shakespeare lived in the times of the Renaissance of Europe, so his tragedy concept is based on deed humanism. Shakespeare's humanism is quite different from the early one. It is based not only on the individual "human nature", but also on the whole "human being". Shakespeare's humanism seeks a kind of order which is fit for the "human being". That's to say, Shakespeare has a deep thinking about the order of the social life. Shakespeare's tragedies concern about the whole social life of human being, so all of the tragedies have rich social thoughts. In Shakespeare's opinion, tragedies have profound social significance, for everyone's life has countless ties with others' lives, and especially, most figures of Shakespeare's tragedies are emperors who are in high social position, and their actions directly influence the society and the nation. The tragedy works of Shakespeare delineate the complicated dialectics of human spirits. The dialectics includes the whole complexity of the social life and the main figures. Shakespeare's humanism is not an abstract concept, but the writing substance, and it reflects the sharp social political crisis. The critique and exposure to the evil of capitalism are the main sign of the realistic achievements while exposing the feudal evil during the writing period of Shakespeare's tragedies. This shows that he is not limited by capitalism and that he is an active person in history. The works of Shakespeare's tragedies not only expose the tyrant rule and the autocratic rule, but also reflect the other side of the world—egoism which refers to the large group of schemers and careerists at the beginning of the primitive accumulation of capitalism. As a thinker and artist, Shakespeare touches the root of human nature with his greed wisdom. He has found out the inequality of the society, the bossy devil's clutches and the corrosiveness of money, and he has portraied the kindness, evil, beauty and ugliness of human nature most vividly. Shakespeare's tragedies have exposed the evil of the egoism deeply. The simplest form of the evil of the egoism is the selfish contemptible motivation and the scheme to seek the material wealth. The result of the motivation and scheme is very wicked and miserable. The thoughts of Shakespeare's tragedies have extensive knowledge and profound scholarship. Shakespeare has carried forward the tragedy's concepts ever since ancient Greece and made them developed. He has grasped the essence and quintessence of the art of tragedies. In his tragedies, he has showed contradictive conflicts not only between the figures and their fate, but also in the characters of the figures, which expands the field of the tragedy conflicts. On the expanding of the theme Shakespeare has showed not only the history but also the thoughts of centering the human being, which are advocated by the humanism during the Renaissance. He not only sings the praises of the glorious human nature, but also points out the bad influence—the out-and-out egoism brought by the early humanism which absolutely spreads the liberation of the individuality and the nature of the bourgeoisie which is greedy and cruel. Shakespeare is a great humanist, so we can find out that he respects women in his works. He shows his respects to the wisdom, coura...