Tragedy

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Tragedy

• Unit IV

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Tragedy continued

• Define tragedy.
• What are some examples of tragedy in life? In
  Literature?
• What makes these examples tragic?

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Tragedy Continued

• What is a tragic flaw?

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Tragedy writing

• Provide a character analysis of a real-life
  individual who rises above a tragic situation in
  a positive way-

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Writing Includes

• -identify tragic elements
• -explain how personal qualities allow person to
  overcome situation
• -length (2-3 paragraphs)

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Notes

• Popular definition calamity (event that brings
  terrible loss and grief)

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Notes

• Literary definition a play, or similar form of
  drama, in which the leading character suffers
  intense conflicts and a wretched fate, often
  because of some weakness
• Also the destruction of the beautiful, innocent,
  or virtuous

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Notes

• Audience is given hope at end of the story
• Catharsis is present (a form of moral
  purification the release of emotions by the
  audience at the end of the tragedy)

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Notes

• Catharsis examples
• Audience feels bad for hero at end of play
• Crying at end of Romeo Juliet

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Notes

• Protagonist may have tragic flaw
• -tragic flaw a defect in the hero that causes
  his/her downfall.
• Hero represents values of his time period

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Notes

• Universal themes search for self, loss of
  innocence, self-sacrifice, and need for a
  scapegoat

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Greek Tragedy

• Belief in Fate
• Contains a chorus (informs audience of story and
  reveals character flaws)
• Main Character subject to eternal suffering

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Shakespearean Tragedy

• 5 acts
• -contains exposition, rising actions, climax,
  falling action, and resolution Freytags pyramid

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Shakespearean Tragedy

• often believes in Free Will
• concludes with main characters death

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Tragedy Wrap up

• Define tragedy.
• Provide 2 examples of tragedy in life and 2 in
  Literature/Film/Television.
• What makes these examples tragic?