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Search option Results found in English Dictionary Wiki: Tragedy is a form of drama based on human suffering. In his speculative work on the origins of Athenean tragedy, The Birth of Tragedy (1872), Nietzsche writes of this ""two-fold mood"": ""the strange mixture and duality in the affects of the Dionysiac enthusiasts, that phenomenon whereby pain awakens pleasure while rejoicing wrings cries of agony from the breast. From highest joy there comes a cry of horror or a yearning lament at some irredeemable loss.
Example: As a rule, I prefer a comedy to a tragedy . It was a great tragedy for them to lose their only son. Its sort of the classic Greek tragedy of hubris begets nemesis. The story has in it something of the element of tragedy . The tragedy must be remembered so that it is not repeated. The tragedy of war must not be forgotten. Shakespeare wrote both tragedy and comedy. Shakespeares Macbeth is a tragedy . What is the real cause of this tragedy ? That tragedy was etched in my mind. Ill treat this play simply as a tragedy . I prefer comedy to tragedy . Its a tragedy that rainforests are being destroyed for the sake of profits. His sudden death was a tragedy . He means the play to be a tragedy . The heart of the tragedy , as of a short story, is a conflict. The tragedy happened suddenly. The capable detective was assigned to investigate the cause of the tragedy . No matter how you look at it youre a beautiful, ill-fated woman, the heroine of a tragedy . All women become like their mothers - that is their tragedy . No man does. Thats his.
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