It's Not a Tragedy Unless You Have a Long Way to

The story of life is a rollercoaster. It has its ups, its downs, its turn-a-rounds and dead stops. People go though life and never know what it is that defines what they feel and experience. Pain and happiness are felt by everyone. We all fall on hard times, but does it make our lives tragic? Shakespeare's tragedies are what help to define what a tragedy is. What classifies something, especially a play, as tragic? To be a tragedy, the play must have a hero of high status that possesses a tragic flaw that initiated the tragedy. The hero must suffer a fall that is felt not only by him/her, but those below him/her. The story must depict his/her suffering and calamity to happier times and show how his/her troubles and death...