#I will post a FB status every d day about envy and jealousy it's even in The Simpsons.

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@the-overanalyst ah, theatre! you're thinking of the four kinds of tragedy 1) complex tragedy, made up of peripeteia and anagnorisis 2) the tragedy of suffering 😢 3) the tragedy of character 4) the tragedy of spectacle 😱. These go hand in hand with the four types of conflict: man vs. man, man vs. nature, man vs. self, and man vs. wild.

!! sorry to be that nerd who adjusts their glasses and says "umm, when you say literally you mean actually" but I have to point out people who are reblogging the above thinking that ideology is the same as the definition of the adjective "tragedy" and the noun "tragedy" applying to real world events are the example of how the word "tragedy" is misused. In reality and in the times when tragedy had one definition, there was: tragedy (preventable) and travesty (unpreventable). This changed with the mandala effect (a phenomenon in which a large number of people share a particular false memory) ex: thinking it's just "blood is thicker than water" when it's fully: "blood is thicker than water, but chosen relationships can be stronger than blood ties". After the ME set in, "Tragedy" took on multiple and conflicting definitions. Let's go back to the basics.

**Some travesties can be tragedies, but not all. And not all tragedies are travesties.

tragedy: (the og) a catastrophic event causing great suffering, destruction, and distress that could not have been prevented

ex: natural disasters like hurricanes and volcano eruptions (not caused by global warming), death due to old age, having/dying from an incurable yet unsolved disease like multiple sclerosis, drowning when your lungs are full of water - it's JUST going to happen, smaller animals statistically prey to larger animals -- *I'll put God/religion as a side note here (I'm not personally saying it's fact, but others believe it as such and it would be included in their full definition of tragedy) along with fate/deities/powers-that-be = out of a being's (human or otherwise) control derived from: tragic - great sadness due to death or suffering

travesty: an event causing suffering, distress, shock and upset that could have been avoided.

ex: shootings at schools, a lot less people dying on the Titanic, romeo not dying by drinking poison when he visited juliet because he saw her wake up, cancer because someone smoked for 30 years, people causing global dimming, oil spills, "b*mb" trains, people who actively choose not to evacuate dangerous zones when warned to and then dying, sunburn when you were carrying sunscreen typical definition: (n) sham, mockery, parody - YA GET IT? MAN MADE, CREATED!! A V O I D A B L E ! ! !

Brittanica almost did right by me by saying: something that is shocking, upsetting, or ridiculous because it is not what it is supposed to be,

but then the example said travesty and tragedy were the same 😑 (curse you, mandala effect)

"This shooting is a tragedy," says spokesperson, p0lice chief, news anchor ALL THE TIME. Um, no - no it was literally AND actually avoidable. Their finger was not strapped down to the trigger by an irreversible disease or hand of God that they physically could not fight at any form in any state. IT 👏 IS👏 A 👏 TRAVESTY👏 IT IS AVOIDABLE.

You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it. - Paulo Coelho

sorry to get on an English major's soapbox on what is an eloquent post, but writers from books, shows, movies, fanfics, quotes, ads, and speeches get his wrong EVERY DANG DAY.

Jealousy/envy and tragedy/travesty and yeah I WILL throw in literally/actually have become victims of the mandala effect or meaning the exact opposite of their original definition.

Thank you for your time.

i've come to realize there are only two kinds of tragedies: preventable and inevitable. preventable tragedies are the kind where everything could have maybe worked out if only. if only romeo had gotten the second letter. if only juliet had woken up earlier. if only creon had changed his mind about antigone sooner. if only orpheus hadn't turned around.

inevitable tragedies are the kind where everything was always going to end terribly. of course macbeth gets deposed, he murdered his way to the throne. of course oedipus goes mad, he married his own mother. of course achilles dies in the war, he had to fulfill the prophecy in order to avenge his lover.

both kinds have their merits. the first is more emotionally impactful, letting the audience cling to hope until the very end, when it's snatched away all at once leaving nothing but a void. the second is more thematically resonant, tracking an inherent fatal flaw in its hero to a natural and understandable conclusion, making it abundantly clear why everything has to happen the way it does.