Q.What is tragedy?
Tragedy:- Aristotle in his Poetics defines tragedy as "the artistic imitation of an action that is serious. complete in itself, and of a certain in magnitude" and that involves "incidents arousing pity and fear". Whatever this may be, tragedy is in general a serious drama that presents the downfall of its protagonist, a person "better than ourselves", who through some error of judgment, weakness of character, or twist of fate suffers crushing defeat or death. But in the modern world the traditional concept of tragedy has undergone a sea-change. Falder in Galsworthy's Justice, Maurya in Synge's Riders to the Sea are average man or woman and they suffer largely from the tyranny of adverse situations.
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