... and stature. This makes their fall all the more startling and vivid. The protagonist suffers terribly and the conclusion is catastrophic. The suffering the protagonist undergoes is redemptive in bringing out the capacity for accepting moral responsibility. These are simply the guidelines of a tragedy that Aristotle set forth for this kind of drama and they primarily make up the theory of what a tragedy should be. ... Tragedy today, in the 21st century, follows the same form as Aristotle's Poetics, but has been interpreted for our time period. The United States started the 21st century w...

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