Across
- 1. Struggle between opposing forces, inner or outer
- 4. Extraordinary nature that elevates the tragic hero
- 6. Chance event that affects but does not dominate the plot
- 10. Vast order beyond human control shaping events
- 11. Medieval power believed to raise and destroy the mighty
- 12. Sense of the world’s inexplicable suffering
- 13. System in which actions bring inevitable consequences
- 16. Bradley’s term for passions and ideas battling within characters
- 17. Central tragic impression: destruction of great potential
- 18. Emotions tragedy is meant to evoke
- 19. Human deeds that drive the tragic sequence
Down
- 1. Exceptional suffering leading toward death
- 2. Source from which tragic actions arise
- 3. Feeling that events move unstoppably toward catastrophe
- 5. Central figure whose downfall defines the play
- 7. Ghosts or witches influencing but not controlling events
- 8. Elevated social rank required of Shakespearean protagonists
- 9. Sudden fall from prosperity to ruin
- 14. Fatal fixation or dominant trait in the hero
- 15. The hero’s contribution to his own downfall