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This 9 page paper examines the idea of tragedy according to Aristotle and evaluates the Arthur Miller play. Information about protagonist Willy Loman is highlighted. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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can anyone say about the death of a human being other than it is a tragedy. In Love Story and in other works such as Death of a Salesman, there
is human anguish and literal and emotional death, and in the pages of contemporary writing, the question lingers as to what is tragic anyway. After all, people die. It is
part of life. One may want to look at life as meaningful and that there is meaning in both life and death. Even when someone is taken young, and the
media says that an event is tragic, others think of it as Gods will or something that is inevitable due to fate. When Romeo and Juliet died unnecessarily, people thought
it was tragic and Shakespeare meant it to be a tragedy, but what is a tragedy exactly? In order to discern the idea of the tragedy, the concept will be
explored under the auspices of Aristotle, one of the original inventors of the concept. The term tragedy, in ancient Greece, refers to a drama that features a tragic hero
("Introduction"). A misfortune of a great magnitude is part of the plot and the misfortune is not an accident and thus meaningless ("Introduction"). An example of this might be the
concept of the senseless murder. Some suggest that this is an oxymoron. After all, what murder is sensible? But when a young life is taken due to some sick mind
who enjoys watching someone else die, it is more than just a fated misfortune. It is tragic. The point is that one is struck by the horrific nature of an
act coupled with the fact that it should never have occurred. The nature of the tragedy is that it is connected with the heros activities and it emphasizes human vulnerability
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