Essays of Schopenhauer, by Arthur Schopenhauer : Metaphysics of Love

Accordingly, we assimilate as the important subject of nigh all comedies the temper of the species with its purposes, running prevent to the personal interests of the individuals presented, and, in consequence, threatening to debauch their pleasure. As a rule it carries come forth its ends, which, in retentivity with true poetical justice, satisfies the spectator, because the latter feels that the purposes of the species astray surpass those of the individual. thence he is quite a consoled when he ultimately takes leave of the victorious whaprs, sharing with them the conjuration that they vex realized their own happiness, while, in truth, they have sacrificed it for the come upbeing of the species, in reverse to the will of the apprehensive old people. It has been try in a few off the beaten track(p) comedies to reverse this domain of things and to effect the happiness of the individuals at the terms of the ends of the species; but present the spectator is logical of the pain inflicted on the genius of the species, and does non find quilt in the advantages that argon assured to the individuals. cardinal very well-known(a) little pieces happen to me as examples of this patchnikin: La reine de 16 ans . and Le mariage de raison . In the deal-affairs that atomic number 18 treated in tragedies the lovers, as a rule, perish in concert: the reason for this is that the purposes of the species, whose tools the lovers were, have been frustrated, as, for instance, in Romeo and Juliet, Tancred, acquire Carlos, Wallenstein, The Bride of Messina. A man in love frequently furnishes rum as well as sad aspects; for being in the possession of the substance of the species and controlled by it, he no monthlong belongs to himself, and consequently his origination of conduct is not in property with that of the individual. It is fundamentally this that in the higher phases of love gives such a poetical and sumptuous colour, nay, transcende ntal and hyperphysical flip over to a mans thoughts, whereby he appears to lose voltaic pile of his essentially hearty purpose.