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A tragedy is a genre of drama based on human suffering and, mainly, the terrible or sorrowful events that befall a main character or cast of characters. [1] Traditionally, the intention of tragedy is to invoke an accompanying catharsis, or a "pain [that] awakens pleasure,” for the audience.
A tragedy is an event of great loss, usually of human life. Such an event is said to be tragic . Traditionally, the event would require "some element of moral failure, some flaw in character, or some extraordinary combination of elements" [ 1 ] to be tragic.
Greek tragedy (Ancient Greek: τραγῳδία, romanized: tragōidía) is one of the three principal theatrical genres from Ancient Greece and Greek-inhabited Anatolia, along with comedy and the satyr play.
The Black Hole of Calcutta was a dungeon in Fort William, Calcutta, measuring 14 by 18 feet (4.3 m × 5.5 m), in which troops of Siraj-ud-Daulah, the Nawab of Bengal, held British prisoners of war on the night of 20 June 1756.
Anger drove Marija Petrovic to join student protests in Belgrade in November. A railway station roof had collapsed days earlier in the Serbian city of Novi Sad, killing 15 people. Thugs then set ...
"A son lost his mom in the most unthinkable tragedy," she says. "This is never something to forget, and we're trying to parent through it." Halyna Hutchins was a Ukrainian cinematographer and a ...
Aristotle's work on aesthetics consists of the Poetics, Politics (Bk VIII), and Rhetoric. [8] The Poetics was lost to the Western world for a long time. The text was restored to the West in the Middle Ages and early Renaissance only through a Latin translation of an Arabic version written by Averroes. [9]
Another tragedy took place last month after American Airlines flight 5342 collided with a US Army Black Hawk Helicopter. All 60 passengers and four crew members on the passenger flight, along with ...