Belmont Abbey College - Spire Yearbook (Belmont, NC)

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In his pursuit of knowl- edge in the field of literature, the Abbey student examines the works of the ages- Homer, Vergil, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Tennyson, Twain, Hem- ingway, Lenny Bruce. . . But the outstanding genre of literature is, of course, OH! OH! TRAGEDY.

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ENGLISH School days, school days, Dear old golden RULE days; Reading and writing and ' rithmetic, Taught to the tune of a hickory stick. Then, 1 - 1 02- 1 03,20 1 -202,30 1 -302,303-304, 305,306,307,401 ,402,403,404,408 came along.

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Tragedy appeals to the more noble aspects of man ' s nature (thirst for blood, morbid fascina- tion with death, etc.) Yet true tragedy con- tains the redeeming quality of the catharsis — the purging of the viewers pity and fear. And the fact that tragedy exposes univer- sal flaws gives the view- er a ready excuse for his own actions. One can reason, for instance, that since Othello killed his wife because of the universal flaw of jeal- ousy, and I ain ' t no dif- ferent from nobody else, I can kill my wife, too, and everyone will un- derstand. that 7 order I was there o what I had seemed destruction viewer realizes lA catharsis