Flying Towards Fate

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these aspirations because they ought to be there.
Greek tragedy was written as an affirmation of these ideals of an individual man plagued with the conflict of his universe and the fate that governed him. The prime function of these dramas was to express the feelings and reflections of man’s encounter with fate. Toni Morrison’s novel Song of Solomon is a reflection of Greek tragedy in that the book’s central character Milkman is governed by the environment in which he was born into. Milkman, in his selfishness, attempts to runaway from the conflicts both with and against himself, but a combination of his father’s own hubris and the secrecy of his own heritage, binds him to the life he was destined to fulfill. Milkman is a tragic figure in that he is consumed by his own fatal flaw of selfishness and eventually experiences a reaffirmation of life after he confronts and makes the decision to live his life as it was destined to be. Milkman’s demise is never stated, which is ...

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the Dionysion festivals, but all differed markedly from each other. Aeschylus concerns himself with moral issues and exemplifies the dangers of overwhelming arrogance. He is known as the “Father of Tragedy” (Lattimore 25), and places his heroes in the hands of fate, which was a superior intelligence. The very obstacles he was trying to remove overcame the hero. Sophecles believed that man’s fate was determined by his own faults rather than the will of the gods. Euripides was realistic and rationalistic towards the gods. He wrote about less-than-heroic heroes and relied on ‘deus ux machinae’ to resolve his plots.
The structure of Greek tragedy stresses scenes of dialogue alternate ...

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