This week we began to work on our tragedy unit. I found a lot of the media we have used so far very interesting. I especially enjoyed the Ted Talk that we watched this week, I feel like it greatly helped me with beginning to think about the topic at hand. I'm already beginning to see tragedy in a different light. Before we started discussing it, I had thought of it as merely an unfortunate event, but now I see that there is much, much more involved in it. I learned that as humans, we are drawn to tragedy now, as we were drawn to it years and years ago. Tragedy can often be somewhat comforting, because you feel as if you're not alone in woes and hard times.
I'm excited to read more pieces about tragedy in order to gain more knowledge about the concept. It's an interesting thing to learn about, especially since many of the pieces explain how we, as humans, are outgrowing tragedy in its original state, and moving on. I think this mostly is a result of the fact that we use humans as our role models, and people don't believe in the Gods or God having control over what happens to us. As a result, many a times we don't view things as tragedies, we view them as the result of human stupidity. Which from a literature standpoint, makes writing pieces less magical, in my opinion. Comments are closed.
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Mattie BarberAP Lit student. |