The Absolute Rule of Evil in Shakespearean Tragedies with Focusing on Hannah Arendt’s Approach

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Does evil have an independent nature? Does evil affect man and his performance? Or man by his performance makes it. Evil nature has fate and Forceful or It comes from the will of man? Answer the two questions is the main challenge of this Research for the function of characters in Shakespearean tragedies determines their impact or influence. Evil is the central element in tragedy. The tragedy is about the relationship between man and the world. A relationship that sometimes lead to human degeneration and sometimes it will focus on the contemplation of this ruin and darkness. Something that distinguishes tragedy from other dramatic structures is the expression of the evil force and its destructive level influence. The effort of this study is follow up the characters of drama and evil relationship and evil acts in tragedy. How evil can become an active and decisive element in the play? Therefore, the aim of this study is to discover the mechanism of the formation of Government of "Absolute Evil " and its domination in Shakespeare’s Tragedies .As claimed in the above lines to explore the plays the two basic , objective and tangible elements it is considered ,Action and protagonist .Action and protagonist are fundamental elements for creating drama .Of course, requires and relies to Propulsion force .How to the Propulsion force is formed ?Process of populace characterization ,communication of aim with disaster and evil ,internal and external communication among actions ,ignorance and mindless creates a range in which actions become inevitably vicious .This range is the concept of evil domination which is formed in tragedy .The reason for the use of Shakespeare’s tragedies is that unlike Greek tragedies ,Shakespeare’s tragedies are formed beyond destiny fatalism .The creation of catastrophic affair in these tragedies is disobedience of human from right and rational affair .Shakespeare’s tragedies have been created about man mistake and vicious qualities of man’s nature .absolute evil can be linked with totalitarianism Totalitarian regime is a collection of Hannah Arendt’s reviews about evil and human evil .Hannah Arendt believes that evil is formed somehow in human existence and society ,which becomes a fundamental element .The study of two dramatic elements of action and protagonist( based on Arendt’ theories about evil )in Shakespeare’s tragedies to achieve the concept of evil domination in these tragedies has been done in this research. The main source of tragedy in this research is Dr .Pazaragadi’s book .In Pazaragadi’s book ,the plays of Pericles and Cymbeline are in the category of tragedy but They do not have Principle and criterion of tragedy .They do not have a catastrophic and painful end .So they have been neglected in this research .The following 9 plays have been considered :Hamlet, Othello ,King Lear ,Macbeth ,Anthony and Cleopatra ,Timon of Athens and Coriolanus ,Julius Caesar and Romeo and Juliet.
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Persian
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