Thread:Mesektet/@comment-27729149-20151002041329/@comment-3581997-20151108183650

It can. Though tragedy is more than just something bad happened to someone. Tragedy has to do with effort and intent being for naught. In the example you gave me it isn't that the man lost a loved one, it's that his efforts for them only made things worse.


 * A man kills someone but had a bad childhood, not a tragedy,


 * A man kills his mother who beat him in his youth, still not a tragedy.


 * A man gets beaten as a child to the point where his mother is the center of his world, kills trespassers that might hurt his mother but one day accidentally stabs her in the dark thinking he was stabbing a trespasser who was there to hurt her, that is a real life tragedy. Yes even though both he and the mother are horrible people.

It's not about suffering it's about cruel irony, and that does occur in real life sometimes.