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Why do we love tragedy? Anonymous Mon Aug 1 06:29:19 2022 No.20769490 [Reply] [Original]

No one would read "Anna Karenina: The women who fixed her marriage", but "Anna Karenina: The women who an heroed via train" is a beloved novel. Romeo and Juliet is more popular than A Midsummer Night's Dream. Why? Why do we revel in misery so much?

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 1 06:30:48 2022 No.20769498 >>20769490 YWNBAW

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 1 06:45:40 2022 No.20769531 File: 13 KB, 300x300, 1659336322483.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>20769490 Because humans are spiteful, contemptuous and pitiful creatures who can only find meaning in suffering.

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 1 06:59:39 2022 No.20769558 >>20769498 OP is a duck.

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 1 07:05:01 2022 No.20769568 >>20769490 A Midsummer Night's Dream is better than Romeo and Juliet though.

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 1 09:35:47 2022 No.20769922 ask Aristotle, he writes about it in his poetics

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 1 09:42:06 2022 No.20769937 >>20769490 Not me. I hate tragedy. I can't even reread books I loved, because a really sad thing happens.

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 1 12:24:08 2022 No.20770425 Hot diggity, look at that duck go!

Anonymous Mon Aug 1 12:30:33 2022 No.20770443

>>20769490
Basically empathy. But also it's because successes have to feel earned. A happy ending feels unsatisfying if there's no conflict to get there. A sad ending tacked onto 300 pages of effortless success wouldn't feel right either
>...and after he won 5 gold medals, got the girl, and got his dream job he was struck down by a drunk driver one morning
Too out of left field.
It's very much like a balance, or an equation.
However a sad ending where the character gallantly tries but still fails hits harder than a sad ending tacked onto effortless success, because there's this sense that the character deserves a happy ending
>>20769490
it's always a sign of an animator showing off when they successfully turn a character around, more so if it's a full 360

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 1 12:32:23 2022 No.20770449 Because we would not relate to it. Life does not have happy endings, only compounding unresolved disappointment and emptyness.

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 1 12:34:48 2022 No.20770460 >>20769922 I second this.

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 1 13:06:58 2022 No.20770559 >>20769490 So that we can learn from the mistakes of others.

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 1 13:11:17 2022 No.20770575 Wow thanks I was looking forward to reading this but now I know the ending. Should I even bother with it now?

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 1 19:14:46 2022 No.20772022 Bump

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 1 19:16:30 2022 No.20772030 >>20770575 Yes, read it. Any work worth reading isn’t less good because of spoilers.

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