To begin, tragedy in my own words or what I think it is essentially an event that brings one to tears. For instance, in the Martian Chronicles Fourth Expedition. A character uses the word tragedy when describing how Chicken Pox unknowingly brought an entire race to an end. That it was because of us, that the Martians were killed by the thousands over a year or two. Another scenario of an author using the word, tragedy. Would be in the Sandman Series written by Neil Gaiman. A character was calling it a tragedy when Dream had finally died. There is truth in this story but that can be explained another time another place. But tragedy is something that brings condolences or sorrow. But what I do not know is the difference between tragedy and everything else that is closely related but is considered something else. For that is something that I hope to learn in this unit for good reasons of course.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6Wy88qSA5Y (Dark by Gary Numan)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revenge_play
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aristotle/#RheArt
So after reading some interesting links worth linking to this blog of course. I have discovered that tragedy originated from the Greeks. That an individual known as Aristotle actually tried to define Tragedy. For Aristotle believed that "Tragedy is characterized by seriousness and involves a great person who experiences a reversal of fortune. " For something unusual to be discovered from the Greeks. But sure enough, when the Romans started to conquer towns and cities that were from the Greeks. They of course discovered Greek Tragedy and modified it to fit their society. But onto the most important thing that I want to mention of all things. Aristotle was able to simplify tragedy into four things.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6Wy88qSA5Y (Dark by Gary Numan)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revenge_play
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aristotle/#RheArt
So after reading some interesting links worth linking to this blog of course. I have discovered that tragedy originated from the Greeks. That an individual known as Aristotle actually tried to define Tragedy. For Aristotle believed that "Tragedy is characterized by seriousness and involves a great person who experiences a reversal of fortune. " For something unusual to be discovered from the Greeks. But sure enough, when the Romans started to conquer towns and cities that were from the Greeks. They of course discovered Greek Tragedy and modified it to fit their society. But onto the most important thing that I want to mention of all things. Aristotle was able to simplify tragedy into four things.
- Complex
- Suffering
- Character
- Spectacle (horror theme)