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Tragedy Matthew Kempin

Tragedy is an event causing great suffering, distress and destruction. Tragedy can be a certain piece of drama as said " tragedy refers to a specific tradition of drama that has played a unique and important role historically in the self-definition of western civilization"(Banham). Tragedy usually consists of a main character of a drama going through tragic events. The events in the tragedy usually lead to the characters fate. According to a writer "the tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wings"(Braun). This article gives an insight of what some tragedies can be like. Tragedies were meant to entertain the viewer or reader which sometimes includes twists in the plot. The best of a tragedy can come from the near gratification of the main character making something more tragic then it could have been.

"Tragedy." Wikipedia. 30 November 2009. web. 30 november 2009.