What is a Tragedy?

Everyone has heard of a tragedy, but how many actually know what it is? A tragedy is a format of drama based on human suffering. The odd part about tragedies is that the audience is pleasured by watching humans suffer. What does this remind you of? Probably Shakespeare. Shakespeare has written many tragedies in his lifetime. Romeo and Juliet doesn't have a happy ending, or a happy storyline, yet people still love the drama. This is because people enjoy the feeling that comes with human suffering.

The tragedy of the commons is a term that denotes a situation where individuals acting independently and rationally according to each's self-interest behave contrary to the best interests of the whole group by depleting some common resource. This is almost a tragedy for the commons. It actually relates to Hunters in the Snow, when Kenny was shot, Tub and Frank took their time to head towards the hospital. They then stopped to get coffee and to warm up, leaving Kenny freezing and bleeding in the back of the truck. This could be considered a tragedy of the commons. If there was an actual zombie apocolypse, and someone decided to take the communities food for themselves, this would be a tragedy of the commons. People are selfish, so there is a need to have this type of tragedy.

Most of Shakespeare's tragedies involve revenge. Revenge often drives these tragedies. In these tragedies, the main character goes to revenge an event that has taken place. Often times this revenge will come from murders. Someone will murder someone, and their friend or lover will take revenge and kill the original killer. Revenge often makes a huge part in tragedies, and it can usually make them more interesting.