People have all experienced our own tragedies throughout our lives. The most important question that should be asked is can we learn from them? "You can bring a horse water, but you can't make it drink" is a common moral that can be applied to tragedy. Often times people watch the news and hear of tragedies oceans away and people make a cliche statement about how unfortunate the circumstance is but they never make an effort to be apart of the solution. Then, when something horrible happens to them, they ask themselves "Why me? What did I do to deserve this suffering?". "Aristotle wrote in his work Poetics that tragedy is characterized by seriousness and involves a great person who experiences a reversal of fortune (Peripeteia)." (Aristotle on Tragedy, Stanford Encyclopedia"
Anyone can fall victim to tragedy in any circumstance. Whether it be inevitable or caused by a flaw in a character. Therefore, tragedy is relative to a person's situation. Tragedies cannot be blanketed among a population. The tragedy of the commons encapsulates every day tragedies. "The tragedy of the commons is an economic theory of a situation within a shared-resource system where individual users acting independently according to their own self-interest behave contrary to the common good of all users by depleting that resource through their collective action." (Tragedy of the Commons, Wikipedia). People may put their selfish needs over others. Therefore, tragedies for the common man are inevitable. If a character inherits a struggle or they experience an unfortunate circumstance, beyond their control, the reader can only sympathize and understand what that character is going through. By studying tragedies, people can only learn how to handle them rather than stopping them.
Anyone can fall victim to tragedy in any circumstance. Whether it be inevitable or caused by a flaw in a character. Therefore, tragedy is relative to a person's situation. Tragedies cannot be blanketed among a population. The tragedy of the commons encapsulates every day tragedies. "The tragedy of the commons is an economic theory of a situation within a shared-resource system where individual users acting independently according to their own self-interest behave contrary to the common good of all users by depleting that resource through their collective action." (Tragedy of the Commons, Wikipedia). People may put their selfish needs over others. Therefore, tragedies for the common man are inevitable. If a character inherits a struggle or they experience an unfortunate circumstance, beyond their control, the reader can only sympathize and understand what that character is going through. By studying tragedies, people can only learn how to handle them rather than stopping them.