People often write about things that have an emotional impact with them. Tragedy is an emotional scale that people can relate to. People write and read tragedy because it makes a connection with their emotion. With a tragedy, all the negative emotions people feel can be intensified. Depending on how one might translate a word or sentence of the line or phrase, the purpose and definition of a tragedy can be interpreted in various ways. Tragedy is evident in Sophocles “Antigone”, where Creon is faced with many difficulties that lead to his downfall and in “The Epic of Gilgamesh”, when Gilgamesh’s best friend Enkidu dies and “Oedipus the King”, when Oedipus’s pride lead to his downfall.
A tragedy creates a cause-and-effect chain that clearly reveals what may happen at any time or place because that is the way the world operates. Tragedy not only conveys pity but fear because audiences of the narrative can relate to the events unfolding in the drama. A tragedy allows the writer to convey his/her emotion to the reader which allows the readers to sympathize with the writer. In a tragedy, many different emotions can be expressed such as danger, defeat, death, and bravery. All of these emotions can be seen in the Epic of Gilgamesh as well as Antigone.…show more content… A tragedy is defined by dramatic scenes where the main character goes through struggle which can end in ruin or disappointment. In “Antigone”, the tragedy in Sophocles uses many techniques to produce the feelings of fear and pity in his readers. This creates an tragedy. A tragic hero is a character of noble “stature” and has greatness, and he/she is not perfect. The hero's downfall is somewhat his/her own fault which can lead to disasters. Antigone is a tragic hero because she someone who has very high standing in Thebes, and she neither good nor bad and her suffering appears to be unfair to the
