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‘Euripides differed from Aeschylus and Sophocles in making his characters’ tragic fates stem almost entirely from their own flawed natures and uncontrolled passions. Chance, disorder, and human irrationality and immorality frequently result not in an eventual reconciliation or moral resolution but in apparently meaningless suffering* that is looked upon with indifference by the gods. The power of this type of drama lies in the frightening and ghastly situations it creates and in the melodramatic, even sensational, emotional effects of its characters’ tragic crises.**

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***[– ibid [Encyclopaedia Britannica 20]: 395]

[& See [Redbook8:242][19910208:1520h]{Greek Literature [continued (8)] [– Tragedy [continued (5)]: Euripides]}[8th February 1991]]

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