English Literature A-Level
Domestic tragedy
What Domestic tragedy means in English Literature A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Domestic tragedy
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A type of tragic text about representations of ordinary people and private life, where the fall can destroy a family yet leave the wider world unmoved.
Topics that use Domestic tragedy
- Aspects of tragedy (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Ambiguity and unresolved endings
- Audience expectation and response
- Catharsis
- Classical tragedy
- Complication, climax and catastrophe
- Determinism and free will
- Hamartia
- Order and disorder
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