When I think of the word Tragedy, I think of something bad happening. This is usually an event of some sort, that causes some type of pain to a group of people or an individual. These events range from all areas of life. However, when most people think of Suffering, tragedies of such nature can be seen in the Greek mythological stories of Ajaxes and Ixion's. What I think is a tragedy will not be what the people around me think is a tragedy. Although this is true people don’t realize but tragedies are much more than meets the eye. Myself included forget where tragedies even come from.
Tragedy was first used in literature, and plays. “Tragedy is form of drama based on human suffering that invokes an accompanying catharsis or pleasure in audiences” (wikipedia, tragedy). This last part of this really catches my eye because tragedies make people sad and angry, not happy or joyful. In writing however, a tragedy usually involves three main themes: the inconsistency of fortune (Troades), stories of crime and the evils of murder (Thyestes), and plays in which poverty, chastity and simplicity are celebrated (Hippolytus).[3] (wikipedia, revenge).
An interesting fact about tragedies was used to describe different phenomena at different times. It derives from Classical Greek τραγῳδία, contracted from trag(o)-aoidiā = "goat song", which comes from tragos = "he-goat" and aeidein = "to sing" (cf. "ode"). Scholars suspect this may be traced to a time when a goat was either the prize in a competition of choral dancing or was that around which a chorus danced prior to the animal's ritual sacrifice. I personally find this funny but then when I think about it tragedies are not funny. I mean just think of some of the most famous tragedies. The most well known are probably shakespeare's works and some of those include Hamlet, Julius Caesar, King Lear, Macbeth, Othello,Romeo and Juliet. Tragedies are much more but that is a story from another day.
So despite what an individual may think you know about a tragedy there is alway something more to it.
Tragedy was first used in literature, and plays. “Tragedy is form of drama based on human suffering that invokes an accompanying catharsis or pleasure in audiences” (wikipedia, tragedy). This last part of this really catches my eye because tragedies make people sad and angry, not happy or joyful. In writing however, a tragedy usually involves three main themes: the inconsistency of fortune (Troades), stories of crime and the evils of murder (Thyestes), and plays in which poverty, chastity and simplicity are celebrated (Hippolytus).[3] (wikipedia, revenge).
An interesting fact about tragedies was used to describe different phenomena at different times. It derives from Classical Greek τραγῳδία, contracted from trag(o)-aoidiā = "goat song", which comes from tragos = "he-goat" and aeidein = "to sing" (cf. "ode"). Scholars suspect this may be traced to a time when a goat was either the prize in a competition of choral dancing or was that around which a chorus danced prior to the animal's ritual sacrifice. I personally find this funny but then when I think about it tragedies are not funny. I mean just think of some of the most famous tragedies. The most well known are probably shakespeare's works and some of those include Hamlet, Julius Caesar, King Lear, Macbeth, Othello,Romeo and Juliet. Tragedies are much more but that is a story from another day.
So despite what an individual may think you know about a tragedy there is alway something more to it.