The Tragic in Goethe’s The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774) and Tolstoy’s The Death of Ivan Ilych (1886)
| dc.contributor.author | Arab, Karima | |
| dc.contributor.author | Lounas, Hayet | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-01-10T09:47:27Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2022-01-10T09:47:27Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2019 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This research paper is a comparative study between the German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774) and the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy The Death of Ivan Ilych (1886). Our main objective is to highlight the issue of modern tragic hero in the selected novels in relation to Strindberg and Arthur Miller’s theories. Throughout our investigation, we have attained our objective by depicting the tragic fate of the common man as an outcome to a harsh struggle in modern society. Our discussion has explored the notion of modern tragedy by shedding light on the suitability of ordinary man to be a tragic hero. To emphasize our ideas in this dissertation, we have depicted the impact of aristocratic values on the personality of both heroes, and the struggle for personal dignity which led to their downfall. The work is divided into two major chapters. In the first chapter, we have applied Strindberg’s theory and in the second Miller’s one, though in each the target has been to demonstrate the tragic and its modern aesthetic orientations in Goethe’s and Tolstoy’s designated texts. | en |
| dc.identifier.citation | Literature and Interdisciplinary Approaches | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://dspace.ummto.dz/handle/ummto/16118 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.publisher | Université Mouloud Mammeri Tizi Ouzou | en |
| dc.title | The Tragic in Goethe’s The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774) and Tolstoy’s The Death of Ivan Ilych (1886) | en |
| dc.type | Thesis | en |