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Towards the end of the 19th century, Friedrich Nietzsche criticized Euripides for making tragedy an optimistic genre via use of the device, and was highly skeptical of the “Greek cheerfulness”, prompting what he viewed as the plays’ “blissful delight in life”.

Nietzsche argues that the deus ex machina creates a false sense of consolation that ought not to be sought in phenomena.

— Wikipedia on Deus ex machina

2014.07.12 Saturday ACHK