A Study On How Euripides Inherits And Deviates From The Tragic

Nietzsche pins the death of Greek tragedy on Euripides, and thinks that it definitelyroots in “Internal irreconcilable conflict”. Untimely the conflict refers to the decay of thespirit of the Music as well as the Tragic. By means of the twin concepts, the author willdiscuss the reasonableness and the unreasonableness of Euripidean tragedy, analyzing howEuripides inherit and deviate from the traditional Greek tragedy.In the introduction, the author will summarize the research results about The Deathof Tragedy and The Tragic.The main body of this thesis concludes three parts:Chapter one: The reason why the death of tragedy is so rough and so tragic is thesudden dissociation of Dionysiac Spirit. The tragic chorus unexpectedly loses the deepinsight of life, ethics and art. The new tragedy without Dionysian Music which mixed ofDionysian Spirit and Dionysian Wisdom can no longer inspire human life.Chapter two: Euripides deviates from Dionysian Music, while the fairyland ofDionysian Music gives way to the real life, and the Tragic gives way to pessimism. Therhythm, melody and the harmony of tragic chorus in his plays broke our perception ofsublime life. The chorus conveys the ideas of Finiteness and Abstinence which are morecoincide with Apolline Spirit. Meanwhile，the ideal state of a should be tragic herobecomes a natural and real state.Chapter three: The life consciousness of Euripidean tragedy derives from hisperception of the spirit of time, finally his plays fall into a circle of Apolline Spirit.Unintentionally he sets free the Greek Tragedy, with an attitude ofrHesistance he inheritsthe life consciousness of Greek Tragedy.