Wow! It has been quite a while since I have updated this blog page! During the past few weeks I have been highly focused on my tragedy blog and the topic of tragedies in general. So, I figured that it would be only natural for me to update this one by pulling in what I have learned about tragedy in the past couple of weeks. Here is a website that talks about tragedy. A tragic story is a story that has a main character or hero that has some sort of horrid event fall upon them. I believe that mostly every single person knows, at least in some roundabout way, what a tragedy is. However, there are some certain aspects of tragedies that are a little bit lesser known that just that one must include a tragic event and a relatable hero. For example, something that I have learned over the course of my studies is that for a tragedy to be truly effective and make a full impact, whatever event that is going to go wrong has to have had a feasible possibility to succeed. Otherwise, there is no tragedy because there is no surprise and there is no failure. One simply can not fail at something that is totally impossible to succeed at; if that is the case then there is no real task at all. In that sense, it also creates a fuller, more well characterized hero for readers to relate to and love. In seeing someone's disappointment and/or shock, the tragic hero will feel much more likable and real to those who experience him. I was also not really aware that a tragedy usually takes the form of a play or theatrical performance. I have always assumed that any story that fits the other prerequisites could be considered a tragedy. This, by definition, is not really the case. While it is technically still a tragedy, a poem or a novel is not considered to actually be one by many definitions. They absolutely still have merit in the genera, but are not widely considered to be "legitimate" aspects of the art form. Tragedy is also not as common in today's media as it was back in the days of Oedipus. Humans today have different complexes and, while we all still love reading about the misfortune of others, we do not crave the creation of it as much. This is possibly due to new technologies giving people more choice about what they want to spend their time doing or writing about, but it is mostly due the to difference in the culture of the world today versus the culture of the world when Sophocles was writing his tragedies. These past weeks have taught me a lot about the genera. I feel that having two blogs is a lot of work, but hey, this is an AP Literature and Composition class, so I can handle it. Even though it is a lot, I am also grateful that I have the chance to learn so much about literature and different genres and how everything works together.
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