Tragedy 2
Tragedy 2 :
“An intensely sad, calamitous, or fatal event or course of events; disaster” (Funk & Wagnalls 1996). “The word ‘tragedy’ summons up in one’s mind the inevitability not only of this event but of other similar events in the past and more to follow. Responsibility can be successfully abrogated with the application of the label ‘tragedy’…One needs to look no further into the cause or causes of this event because it has now been lifted outside of one’s power and into the domain of Greek drama and fate. As a tragedy, it was fated to be and the only possible response is to accept it (and others of its kind) as part of the inescapable human situation. The event may be mourned and one may sympathize briefly with the victims. But one is freed (by thinking of it as a tragedy) from the need to examine the conceptual apparatus that led to this outcome” (Allinson 1993, 14)
