Well, my definition of a tragedy is a clash between right and right.
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Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights.
A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.
Tragedy is a literary concept.
Tragedy occurs when a human soul awakes and seeks, in suffering and pain, to free itself from crime, violence, infamy, even at the cost of life. The struggle is the tragedy - not defeat or death.
What then is tragedy? In the Elizabethan period it was assumed that a play ending in death was a tragedy, but in recent years we have come to understand that to live on is sometimes far more tragic than death.
Classical tragedy was the war between good and evil. We wanted evil to be defeated and good to be victorious. But the battle in modern tragedy is between good and good. And no matter which side wins, we'll still be heartbroken.
Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.
In my life, I've dealt with tragedy.
A Shakespearean tragedy as so far considered may be called a story of exceptional calamity leading to the death of a man in high estate. But it is clearly much more than this, and we have now to regard it from another side.
Tragedy, for me, is not a conflict between right and wrong, but between two different kinds of right.