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Revenge tragedy depicts a son’s revenge for a father’s murder (or vice versa). The murder is revealed and directed to the protagonist by the murdered man’s ghost. Revenge results from conscious and focused action.
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The following are major ideas held by conservative writers and thinkers of Neoclassicism.
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Comedy is poetry that transmutes a sad beginning into a happy ending.
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An overriding theme of Molière’s Tartuffe is not one of religion directly, but of that age-old concern of comme il faut, propriety, and appearance versus reality.
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Allusion in Neoclassical poetry provides a contrast between the past and the present; allusion enriches the meaning and the texture of the poem; and allusion suggests a universality.
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