To conflict journalists, a tiny, tight-knit tribe, tragedy is practically an occupational requirement: our work requires us to seek it out, measure it, contextualize it, and chronicle it.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Tragedy is a literary concept.
Tragedy is a great storytelling form. It worked extremely well for Shakespeare. It worked extremely well for Jim Cameron with 'Titanic.'
A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.
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.
Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it.
The journalistic endeavor - at least theoretically - is grounded in objectivity. The goal is to get you to understand what happened, when and to whom.
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.
I think that ultimately any effective drama or tragedy tries to put you as much as it can into the protagonist's shoes.
For novelists, sharply drawn moral conflicts are often useful, and even human and personal disasters can be seen as material.
Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.