What is Tragedy?

Knowing what you know, how can you explain whether something is tragic or not? What are the things that make up tragedy or tragic ends? Explain.

Something that is tragic is when something bad, harmful, something that causes pain for hero making him or her doubt whether or not what they are doing is good, is right. A Tragedy is a story, play, etc... that ends with a death of the protectionist or one of their friends. Like in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. In the end for Romeo and Juliet to escape their lives of separation from each other and their parents' hatred for the other, they both commit suicide so that they may be together in the "underworld." In tragedies, the playwright or author try to evoke emotions on the readers. They are trying to prove a point, leave us with a lesson, that we can learn from. Tragedies are unlike comedies more realistic. They are situations that we may face in our lives, but the sadness, the pain that the protagonist must face is more accentuated. In tragedies, the protagonist's life never ends well. At the beginning we see that the protagonist is doing well, living a happy life, but then something goes wrong and the protagonist is faced with a situation that can either end in a happy ending or end badly. At first it seems that the protagonist may actually have a happy ending, but towards the end something else goes wrong leaving him or her in a worsen state. The reason I believe people appreciate tragedies more than comedies is because we can see our selves in the protagonist, and after seeing what he or she has to go through makes us appreciate our lives more and see how lucky we and how we should value our life.