Explore The Modern Values For Raymond Williams View Of Tragedy

Raymond Williams deems that tragedy is a kind of cultural form about the tragic experience, which contains extremely era culture connotation; between daily life tragedy and artistic tragedy there is a corresponding developing relation; tragedy actions only due to the external force works in a case, tragedy should be translated into asking for the value and meaning of life. His tragic theory bases on his investigations and reflections on the long history of the debates and evolution of the western tragic conception; and is thought to inherit and develop former tragedy theory:his final purpose of establishing relations between tragedy and experience is to building a bridge between modern tragedy and cultural revolutions.Williams pays close attention to the development of modern literature and art, he tries to make his arguments get test again in different forms. His understanding of the whole modern literature and art is closely related with the emotional structures of these works. Williams focuses on the tragic features of the modern literature and art. The modern tragedy even the whole modern literature becomes a form of cultural revolutions, which participates in "long-term revolution". In the modern tragedy literature, Williams has found a constant tragedy rhythm that modern revolution is in the long term of the development of cultural revolutions, that personal struggle will never yield to the external force in any case. Modern tragedy and the whole modern literature is the cultural sign of this rhythm.The tragedy theory of Williams has deconstructed the traditional view of elitism literature, and has also reconstructed the modern tragedy in the background of popular culture. Cultural materialism research method and historical method have been preliminarily used in discussions of modern tragedy. which is significant to Chinese contemporary cultural research and offers a new pattern about discussing the Chinese tragedy as well. All of these are values of the modern trasedy view of Williams.