Why Do You Love To Read Tragedy?
- Thread starter VictoriaLacey
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- #11
That was wonderful, @Return. As you had achieved awareness of how ephemeral life was, and not too attached to suffered by its loss.
Tragedy often involved deaths, be it of the main character, side character, or background character.
But it just one part of the bigger theme of tragedy. Tragedy was more about how an individual facing the bigger unstoppable forces of authority violence, religion extremes, society herd mentality, discrimination, tides of changing time, fortune *cue O, Fortuna*, etcs.
The one good thing of tragedy was that most deaths were not meaningless, but the direct logical consequences of characters' previous acts, mistakes or inaction. Death often marked the tipping point where the house of card of good time was brought down. It alerted that something very wrong had been going on and the culmination of leaving it unchecked was someone's death. So then, the characters, often devastated by deaths of loved ones and greatly wounded by misfortune, were left with how they would face the consequences.
Here the juiciest part that all tragedy lover were suckers for. The characters could collapse by self-blame into oblivion; try to make peace with what happened: try to forgive, justify, or assimilate with the surroundings (no matter how creepy); try to escape; try to become better themselves; or try to furtively change it (read unstoppable forces). Whatever the choices they made, when cornered, humans would bare their truest selves, their strength of convinction, the best or the worst human were capable of commiting. *~panting roughly~*
Tragedy often involved deaths, be it of the main character, side character, or background character.
But it just one part of the bigger theme of tragedy. Tragedy was more about how an individual facing the bigger unstoppable forces of authority violence, religion extremes, society herd mentality, discrimination, tides of changing time, fortune *cue O, Fortuna*, etcs.
The one good thing of tragedy was that most deaths were not meaningless, but the direct logical consequences of characters' previous acts, mistakes or inaction. Death often marked the tipping point where the house of card of good time was brought down. It alerted that something very wrong had been going on and the culmination of leaving it unchecked was someone's death. So then, the characters, often devastated by deaths of loved ones and greatly wounded by misfortune, were left with how they would face the consequences.
Here the juiciest part that all tragedy lover were suckers for. The characters could collapse by self-blame into oblivion; try to make peace with what happened: try to forgive, justify, or assimilate with the surroundings (no matter how creepy); try to escape; try to become better themselves; or try to furtively change it (read unstoppable forces). Whatever the choices they made, when cornered, humans would bare their truest selves, their strength of convinction, the best or the worst human were capable of commiting. *~panting roughly~*
- #14
Tragedy doesn't have to be the end game of stories either. It can be a theme to propel the character to other means.
In "The Count of Monte Cristo", characters experience tragedy as a result, directly/ indirectly of their actions.
But the point of the story wasn't to highlight tragic moments, but to bequeath greater themes, of hope, justice, vengeance, mercy and forgiveness.
That even the vilest man can be forgiven. Pain is relative to one who has gone the arduous path, in hopes of justice for ideals they carry.
There's a lot that goes on and I implore others, who haven't read the story, to pick it up. And if reading blocks of text isn't your thing, then the Manga by Ena Moriyama could be up your alley.
In "The Count of Monte Cristo", characters experience tragedy as a result, directly/ indirectly of their actions.
But the point of the story wasn't to highlight tragic moments, but to bequeath greater themes, of hope, justice, vengeance, mercy and forgiveness.
That even the vilest man can be forgiven. Pain is relative to one who has gone the arduous path, in hopes of justice for ideals they carry.
There's a lot that goes on and I implore others, who haven't read the story, to pick it up. And if reading blocks of text isn't your thing, then the Manga by Ena Moriyama could be up your alley.
- #15
You must be consuming very bad stories that dont suck you in.
What a shame.Read novels on Asianhobbyist.com...
Seriously,though I dont recall when I last consumed a Hollywood movie or TV show.
I am just disillusioned by it all.
Luckily, there is Chinese and Japanese dramas and sometimes Korean dramas
I recommend Fake Affair
What a shame.Read novels on Asianhobbyist.com...
Seriously,though I dont recall when I last consumed a Hollywood movie or TV show.
I am just disillusioned by it all.
Luckily, there is Chinese and Japanese dramas and sometimes Korean dramas
I recommend Fake Affair
