Originally Posted by
Cheese
The essay question, for those of you interested in these kinds of things:
Nietzsche speaks of 'the metaphysical comfort - with which ... every true tragedy leaves us - that life is at the bottom of things, despite all the changes of appearance, indestructibly powerful and pleasurable'. How helpful do you find this statement? You should make reference to two of the plays you have studied.
I probably could write a decent essay on this but for some reason my essay went off on a tangent about the Greek chorus and there was zero reference to any of the plays we had read. Sadly there wasn't enough of the essay to salvage or time to write anything worth handing in.
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