tragedy

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is not an art form but a form of history.

We live in a time in which tragedy is not an art form but a form of history.' Susan Sontag, Against Interpretation: And Other Essays

is a case not of right against wrong but of right against right two equally justified ethical principles embodied in people of unchangeable will.

Genuine tragedy is a case not of right against wrong but of right against right two equally justified ethical principles embodied in people of unchangeable will. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Tragedy is a close-up... comedy, a long shot. Buster Keaton

is a form of art that addresses what is incurable, ineluctable, inescapapabel in the fate and character of man.

Let him be disillusioned and behold! he will embrace this disillusionment just as fervently as a little while before he embraced his hopes. Insofar as his tendency is among the great incurable tendencies of human nature he is able to give rise to tragic destinies and afterwards become the subject of tragedies: for tragedies have to do with precisely what is incurable, ineluctable, inescapable in the fate and character of man. (nietzsche 'human' all too : 219)

is a vision of nihilism, a heroic or ennobling vision of nihilism.

Tragedy is a vision of nihilism, a heroic or ennobling vision of nihilism.

not perverse: it has its own rightness. It might be described, though, as a kind of comedy turned inside out.

is giving a dignified voice to the most violent passions which in nature remain silent.

In nature the most violent passions are silent... in tragedy they must speak and speak with dignity too. Lord chesterfield

is, in the theater, such that it opens our eyes to the heroic in reality.

tragedy in the theater opens our eyes so that we can discover and appreciate the heroic in reality. Jose Ortega y Gasset

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