AO5 - critical interpretations of poems

Question 1

Northrop Frye

tragic hero

Answer 1

‘the tragic hero must have a divine destiny within his grasp’

‘the act which sets the tragic process going must be a violation of moral law’

Question 2

Oscar Mandel

Answer 2

‘Inevitability meets with a grave spiritual or physical suffering’

Question 3

Aldous Huxley

Answer 3

‘we participate in a tradegy’