Las ideas sobre el amor en las tragedias de Séneca

Abstract

In Seneca's tragedies lave plays an outstanding role and it is an important dramatic resource: It is one of the threatening passions of the individuals. The elementary fears that threaten to disturb the human existence ( omnipresent death, the passions and their terrible effects, the voluntary or involuntary guiltness and politic tirany) that rule the tragedies are the main interest of prose, but while Seneca the prosist fights these evils with stoicism, the tragedies go hardly far beyond representing them, and it doesn 't refers to remedia against the evil: the positive aspect of the stoic doctrine is not common in the tragedies.