Across
- 1. The idea that actions eventually bring results back to the person who made them.
- 3. A disastrous event causing exceptional suffering.
- 8. Ghosts or witches influencing events.
- 9. The inner nature of a person that shapes their actions.
- 11. The sense that someone is heading toward a fall they can’t escape.
- 13. The play was almost always non religious or _______.
- 14. The fate, destiny or unpredictable force that raises or destroys characters.
- 15. A character is carried away by a feeling that makes them act without thinking.
- 17. The struggle between opposing forces, often both internal and external.
- 18. The force which decides events beyond human control.
- 19. The political setting of Hamlet.
- 20. The idea that characters cause much of their own suffering.
Down
- 2. A state of sleepwalking, that appears in Shakespearean tragedy.
- 4. A disturbed mental state that increases pathos.
- 5. Abnormal mental visions influencing characters.
- 6. The sense of lost human greatness in a tragedy.
- 7. The central character whose actions and flaws create the tragedy.
- 10. The final disastrous event that ends the tragedy.
- 12. Prosperity and adversity being distributed in proportion to the merits of the agents.
- 16. A dramatic story ending in the hero’s death and filled with suffering.
