| From the origin and development of the tragedy, fate is used as tragedy's major theme in both Greek tragedy and Shakespeare tragedy in Renaissance. Human's survival plight in tragedy become one of typical plights that facing the complex world. people living at early society pondered and experienced this mysterious and changing world with their own unique experience and the only life at the very beginning, and explored a way out of predicament.This paper attempts to discuss the evolution of view of fate from ancient Greek tragedy to Shakespeare tragedy, and expound the reasons of the evolution combined with historical and cultural background. Besides the introduction and conclusion, the thesis is composed by four chapters.The first part aims to discuss the Greeks'thoughts on fate from both the Greek myth and the Greek philosophy. At the beginning of civilization, the Greeks deeply thought"fate"with their unusual imagination and unique life realization , which showed hard and absurd of the survival and explored the meaning and value of life itself. The second part focuses on the fate of the ancient Greek tragedy by analyzing Aeschylus and Sophocles works. Futhermore, there is some research about the relationship between death and tragedy beauty by anaylzing the tragic hero's death and Dionysus'resurrection in Nietzsches theory of tragedy.The third part mainly processes cause analysis on the fate of the Greek .There are three aspects, namely Athens city-state democratic system, the ancient Greek religious beliefs and the ancient Greeks'rational spiritual and humanistic life attitude.The fourth part briefly describes the transmutation of fate that from ancient Greece to the Renaissance . As the typical text of the fate of Renaissance tragedy, Shakespeares "Hamlet" shows a new view on fate that character decide fortune, which is different from that of ancient Greece. Moreover, city appearance and Renaissance humanism affect fate of Renaissance tragedy to some extent. |
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