In AP Lit this week we read "Tragedy and the Common Man" by Arthur Miller and basically it was three full pages full of different passages about tragedy. So our whole class read the Miller piece and we each had to pick a passage, or sentence from the pages. I picked the sentence "The tragic right is a condition of life, a condition in which the human personality is able to flower and realize itself."
So I broke that sentence into three different parts and that is how I interpreted it. The first part "the tragic right is a condition of life" to me means that with every like there is always doing to be tragedy involved, and it just how life goes. The second part, "a condition", saying it is a condition just states the fact that no matter who you are tragedy will strike your life. So no matter how much money or fame, tragedy will impact your life somehow. And the third part, "human personality is able to flower and realize itself" I see that as with tragedy in your life, you will get something out of it, a positive. So the sentence reveals that when tragedy comes to you in life, take away from it an opportunity to learn or to grow from it.
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