Dora Valencia - Final Exam Essay

"The Meaning Of Tragedy"

The Tragedy, in most cases is a true story or event. It shows how life realy is. Technicly it shows that life is full of sadness and disapointments. Shows the stages of trouble tha humans go through, to get happiness or to die in the process. They ussualy die.

As Romeo and Juliet's families were fighting with eacho other, in a party where Romeo was suposed to forget Rosaline. Wich he did. He finds Juliet and in an act of complete stupidity he falls in love with Juliet, after five seconds. But she is the only daughter of the greates anemy of his father. Of course Juliet wasn't the esxeption for this. The love for Juliet lead to the death of Mercutio, and then to thier own death. He knew that from a dream, that night lead him to his grave.

I see Troy as a tragedy too. Because everybody dies except the ones who started the war. I would ti love to see Paris die in the fight for the right to Helen, but he was coward and ran away to his brother feet, crying like a baby. But he is alife at the end and the Heros are death. Showing that when the heart loves, the mind doesn't think. Is what happen to Paris and Helen. And then to Aquiles.

The Odyssey has two parts, a comedy and a tragedy.
The Tragedy begins thanks to his man. That never listen to his orders. Thanks to their desired od leading themselfs, they die. Making Odysseus to stay with Calypso for many years. When he gets back to Ithaca there was alot of trouble. The maids became traitors. He gets there and killed them with the suitors, that try to marry Penelope. When he is back, she didin't hugh and kissed him like he spect her. But she is a smart women who has been trough alot and needs time.

The Tragedy means, sadness, trouble. The characters would survive the journey or die. They ussualy die. Leaving you with no hope.
Making you feel that there is no purpose of living.
The Tragedy is present in real life, in every action we have to choose between "happily ever after", and "make the grave a home".