The Tragedic Appeal

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^No image is more fitting than the Fall of Icarus^


What makes tragedies so appealing to the public eye? Why does the media primarily focus on tragedies?

It is because the public is, and will ever be, immediately attracted to the reality factor of it. They relate tragedies to themselves more often than fortune events, thereby making the visual experience at once more personal. Despite our chase for happiness, the impact of melancholy, the resonance in sadness flows more naturally amongst popular media.

There is an impeccable tie between "what could have been" to every tragedy. In Romeo and Juliet, it is the possibility of the couple running off together; In Atonement, it exists in Briony's imagination. Without the machination of the intangible ending, tragedies would not seem so tragic after all. So then, we conclude that tragedies depend on the establishment of that temporal ideal condition, sometime before. If I were to compare life to a movie or a novel, then wouldn't life lean toward a tragedy more than anything?

We begin with our kindred and youthful laughs yet conclude with various piercing aches. Better yet, the better your youthfulness was, the more tragic your elderly days will be. The dull will not know the pain of losing joy. So take caution, when you experience surreal triumph and happiness, for an indulgence of such sentiments, will often create a landslide later on.

Perhaps this is why we appreciate tragedies so much— it encourages and trumps the dull lives we live.

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