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Cbe element of Retribution in $bak$pere ' $ tragedies RETRIBUTION is a law of life. It is as invincible, as mysterious, as irresistible as is the law of gravitation : a fixed law, changeless and remorseless. It is the give and it shall be given unto you changed into the give and it must be given unto you. It is the effect of the cause and effect of the nineteenth century. There has never been a law more universally known to the world ; vet, strangest of all paradoxes, there has never been a law more vague, more difficult for man to fathom. The ignorant one speaks of retribution and his words seem wise ; the greatest philoso- pher stands baffled by the very thought. It is a law so simple yet so intricate, so shallow yet so deep. Since the beginning of the world there has always been a longing in the heart of man to express his thoughts in words, to give utterance to the best that is within him. So sound changed into language, language into poetry, poetry into literature. What are books? Are they not the records of the inner life of man, the life, it may be, of fancy, of ideals, of knowledge, of struggles, of actions ? What not ? And what is life? A compound made of many elements. So far man has discovered — yet even
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farther. He has divided the elements into molecules, the molecules into atoms. He has given them names, has classified them ; beyond this he cannot go. He cannot fathom the mystery of space. Books then, the records of this compound life, are of value only, can exist only we might almost say, to the degree in which they treat of the elements that go to make up this life. Let life be treated superficially and they are of value only to the child, whose limited power of vision will not allow him to understand things invis- ible. With the man it is different. Living in a visible world he craves for things unseen. Turning from the struggles of men to the struggles of the soul he longs for rest — the rest of the deep waters of the ocean, he would stagnate in the pool. Thus men of this century read Browning. Thus men of all ages have read Shakspere. Writing of Shakspere, Emerson has said : We have his recorded convictions on those questions which knock for answer at every heart — on life, and death, on love, on wealth and poverty, on the prizes of life and the ways whereby we come at them, on the characters of men, and the influences, occult and open, which effect their fortunes ; and on those mysterious and demoniacal powers which defy our science and yet interweave their malice and their gift in our brightest hours. To study Shakspere ' s views of retribution and confine ourselves to his tragedies is to strive to see the workings of the law through dark glasses. For tragedy in its very name suggests bloodshed and sorrow. It is to his comedies and histories that we should turn for rewards of joy and happiness.
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