The TED talker we watched talked about how people are flawed in real life and how we all have issues. He related this to tragedy because tragic figures are flawed and things don't turn out great for them, which is just like real life. Tragedies tell us about the human condition in a way that other genres can't because they deal with suffering and flaws, which real people have.,
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I've learned about tragedy in earlier classes, and I think I know a little bit about it. It is traditionally a drama genre about someone who is intended to be "good" who for some reason has a fall from grace and has a cathartic bad ending. Starting in ancient Greece, the heroes were usually kings or children of gods because they were usually regarded as totally good, and the thing that goes wrong was usually not in their control. Almost all serious plays at this time were tragedies. Thousands of years later, the tragedy was revived by Shakespeare and other playwrights, but now it was more about the flawed hero rather than a hero that had something happen to them. They still had a cathartic end though. From the wikipedia articles, I learned about the revenge tragedy, which had the drama come from the main character wanting to take revenge on someone else, and their fatal flaw usually had something to do with this.
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