![]() Tragedy and its sibling, horror, are always made as spectacular and sinister displays of ruin.įrequently, films seek to take something beautiful or meaningful and destroy it beyond repair. This letting of emotion, either as purification or purgation, is also known as catharsis (Schaper). This is not to say that we all possess a hidden malevolence, but rather that we actively attempt to experience others suffering in order to alleviate our own. ![]() Luckily many of us are at least mildly sadistic when it applies to tragedy. Hume writes about such an employment of an emotional turn in his essay, On Tragedy.įor the writer, beauty is found in the narrative, form, and the character of their work. BEST BUY, the BEST BUY logo, the tag design, and MY BEST BUY are trademarks of Best Buy and its affiliated companies.
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