In our busy life we often
felt the feelings of sadness, actually this is not only a feeling but we may say
that it’s the consequence of some tragedy. Through many literary books we learn
a lot about tragedy. It creates when we love our hopes. It’s a disaster and
broadly speaking it’s a cry of terror or complaint, rage or anguish which comes
to those who represent in extreme form those flaws and short comings which are
universal in a lesser form .
In American history tragedy has a wider significance . In our day-to-day life we
pass through many tragic incidents. In Oedipus Rex by Sophocles ,tragic hero
suffers because of his own weakness, in Dr Faustus by Christopher Marlowe ,Mephistophlis
suffers because of his lust for power, Adam and Eve in Paradise lost are
expelled from paradise on the account of their own mistake, Lord of the flies by
William Golding also proves that man suffers because of their own weaknesses,
their lust, greed, pride, prejudice, violence, selfishness may cause of the
tragic flaw. Heart of Darkness by Conrad clearly proves that man be a savage to
solve his problems and can adopt evil way for the fulfillment of his desires
instead of knowing that this evil way will lead him towards defeat or tragedy.
Its usually said that tragedy can be GOD , Fate, Chance ,or something nameless.
But if we carefully observe then it would be clear that its only because of the
weaknesses of a character. Different people have different opinions about
tragedy but here I am completely agree with the great novelist THOMAS HARDY who
says:
‘’Tragic suffering is mainly due to the party to weaknesses,
aberrations and faults of characters, and party to Fate or
Destiny manifesting itself not only in accidents or co-incidence
but also through the forces of nature.,,
This view seems authentic to a large extent.
In short God has given us two ways of living a life , if we follow the right way
then we will be the
success and if we will choose the wrong way then we will definitely met the
tragic end.