Going into this next unit, tragedy, I don't really know a whole lot a bout tragedy in the context of literature. The basis of what I know is, tragedy is a title to an event that has occurred, and typically sad. When I think of the base word, tragic, I think of a sad event that has happened, and then after that I think of What even has happened? Why that event has happened? And what will happen after the event has struck?
So over all I really don't know what tragedy is, but I went on Wikipedia. The definition that was given was "Tragedy is a form of drama based on human suffering that invokes an accompanying catharsis or pleasure in audience". Tragedy was first started within Greece theater around 2500 years ago. By using tragedy forms of cultural experimentation, negotiation, struggle, and change are shown. Major forms of tragedy are represented through novels, poems, drama, short stories, and novella. As I searched more, Aristotle's name appeared a lot, so I can easily come up with the conclusion that he heavily shaped tragedy to what it is today. The articles talk a lot about how Aristotle used tragedy to make genre distinctions. Aristotle talked about how tragedy can be different within the context of how the story is told. Like if how the story is told through rhythm, the goodness of the characters within the story, and how the narrative is presented. Rome also had to do with the development of tragedy, starting around 509 BCE. Although Greek tragedy was performed the majority of the time, Roman literature came out of it. To this day there isn't much found examples of Roman tragedy, but there some known difference between the Greece and Roman tragedy stories. They differ from the Greek versions in their long declamatory, narrative accounts of action, their obtrusive moralising, and their bombastic rhetoric.
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