Event
evento de grande perda, geralmente de vidas humanas
Uma tragédia é um evento de grande perda, geralmente de vidas humanas. Tal evento é dito ser trágico. Tradicionalmente, o evento exigiria "algum elemento de falha moral, alguma falha de caráter, ou alguma combinação extraordinária de elementos" para ser trágico.
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“A tragedy, then, is the imitation of an action that is serious and also, as having magnitude, complete in itself; in language ... not in a narrative form; with incidents arousing pity and fear, wherewith to accomplish its catharsis of such emotions.”
“Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.”
“I have changed my definition of tragedy. I now think tragedy is not foul deeds done to a person (usually noble in some manner) but rather that tragedy is irresolvable conflict. Both sides/ideas are right.”
“The legacy of modernity is a legacy of fratricidal wars, devastating "development," cruel "civilization," and previously unimagined violence. Erich Auerbach once wrote that tragedy is the only genre that can properly claim realism in Western literature, and perhaps this is true precisely because of the tragedy Western modernity has imposed on the world.”
“The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he approaches what in life we call fanaticism.”
“The world is a comedy to those that think; a tragedy to those that feel.”
Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.
