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Shakespeare often includes three factors in addition to the “Characteristic deeds ” and the “ suffering and circumstances ” of the persons.
 * 1) abnormal conditions ; however these conditions are never introduced as the origin of important drama. A person who suffers from these abnormalities ceases to be a tragic character .
 * 2) Ghosts and Witches who have supernatural knowledge . These can never be explained as just an <span style="color: red; font-family: 'times','serif'; font-size: 24px;">illusion <span style="font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 24px;"> in the mind of the character. They give a confirmation to forces that are already <span style="color: red; font-family: 'times','serif'; font-size: 24px;">present <span style="font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 24px;">and <span style="color: red; font-family: 'times','serif'; font-size: 24px;">exerting an influence <span style="font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 24px;">on the character. The supernatural will never remove the character’s <span style="color: red; font-family: 'times','serif'; font-size: 24px;">capacity <span style="font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 24px;"> or <span style="color: red; font-family: 'times','serif'; font-size: 24px;">responsibility <span style="font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 24px;">for dealing with his problem
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 24px;">The influence of <span style="color: red; font-family: 'times','serif'; font-size: 24px;">fate <span style="font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 24px;">. This is defined as <span style="color: red; font-family: 'times','serif'; font-size: 24px;">any occurrence (not supernatural, of course) which enters the dramatic sequence neither from the agency of a character, nor from the obvious surrounding circumstances.
 * 4) <span style="font-family: 'times','serif'; font-size: 24px;">In __Hamlet,__ fate takes place with the <span style="color: red; font-family: 'times','serif'; font-size: 24px;">pirate ship <span style="font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 24px;">To say that chance or fate has any large part in the tragic sequence would weaken or destroy the connection between <span style="color: red; font-family: 'times','serif'; font-size: 24px;">character <span style="font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 24px;">, <span style="color: red; font-family: 'times','serif'; font-size: 24px;">deed <span style="font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 24px;"> AND <span style="color: red; font-family: 'times','serif'; font-size: 24px;">catastrophe <span style="font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 24px;">.
 * 5) <span style="font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 24px;">Most accidents of fate really have a connection with <span style="color: red; font-family: 'times','serif'; font-size: 24px;">two groups <span style="font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 24px;"> and usually happen when <span style="color: red; font-family: 'times','serif'; font-size: 24px;">the action is well advanced and the impression of the causal sequence is too firmly fixed to be impaired.

<span style="font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 24px;">Sometimes the conflict may be described as more fully between <span style="color: red; font-family: 'times','serif'; font-size: 24px;">two groups <span style="font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 24px;">or the <span style="color: red; font-family: 'times','serif'; font-size: 24px;">passions <span style="font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 24px;"> or <span style="color: red; font-family: 'times','serif'; font-size: 24px;">tendencies <span style="font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 24px;"> animating these <span style="color: red; font-family: 'times','serif'; font-size: 24px;">groups <span style="font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 24px;">. <span style="font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 24px;">However the major conflict will always be the conflict that exists within the <span style="color: red; font-family: 'times','serif'; font-size: 24px;">character’s soul <span style="font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 24px;">. <span style="font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 24px;">Bradley describes the “spiritual force” as the forces that act in the <span style="color: red; font-family: 'times','serif'; font-size: 24px;">human spirit <span style="font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 24px;">to drive a man’s soul. Sometimes these forces are in <span style="color: red; font-family: 'times','serif'; font-size: 24px;">good or evil <span style="font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 24px;">and create disturbances in the hero’s <span style="color: red; font-family: 'times','serif'; font-size: 24px;">soul <span style="font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 24px;">.