Arthur Miller's essay Tragedy of the Common Man goes in depth on how the topic of tragedy has connections to real people in the real world, making it nice that there's this unique look into tragedy itself.. The essay explains that people don't feel as though they are affected by tragedy, mostly because they put tragedy on a higher pedestal than the kind of things that happen in real life.
There were a wide variety of examples of how tragedy can relate back to the common man, but the point that I took home with me was the concept that tragedy is about what the reader has gone through just as much as the characters within the tragedy. This means that tragedy knows no era, generation, or age group, it is meant for everyone to get something out of it.
There were a wide variety of examples of how tragedy can relate back to the common man, but the point that I took home with me was the concept that tragedy is about what the reader has gone through just as much as the characters within the tragedy. This means that tragedy knows no era, generation, or age group, it is meant for everyone to get something out of it.