My initial reaction to defining tragedy is that it's anything that evokes despair. I also think of the elizabethan plays like shakespeare. For now, this is all I can really say about tragedy. Looking at this wikipedia page, I see that there is probably many different categories of tragedy. This one is about a specific type of play, in which as the name "revenge tragedy" suggests, is a story based around the revenge of the main protagonist. The revenge tragedy purpose seems to be to make the watcher question justice. It seems that often the protagonist takes justice into their own hands, and "plays openly question the morality of revenge. In general, I think this is exactly what I expected to find, especially from just a wikipedia page. It just gave examples of tragedy, and a broad definition. I still do not think that tragedy is something that is that ambiguous. (Image is King Lear)
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Tim Wilson
10/30/2017 05:27:19 am
I had read the revenge tragedy wikipedia page but had just skimmed it, so your blog was super helpful understanding what it was. You summarized the whole page very well and made it simple to understand.
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