#tragedies
“Romeo, Romeo, Romeo! Here’s drink - I drink to thee” (Juliet 4.3.58) Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare
I think a surprising amount of writers don’t realize that tragedies are supposed to be cathartic. They’re intended to result in a purging of emotion, a luxurious cry; the sorrow caused by a great tragedy is akin to fear caused by a good horror movie – it’s a “safe” sorrow, one that is actually satisfying to the audience. It can still be beautiful! It’s isn’t supposed to just be salting the earth so nothing can grow.
But that’s how you get grimdark: writers who don’t realize that they’re supposed to be doing something withthe audience instead of tothe audience.
#i once heard a lecture where someone said that the great appeal of tragedy is to see terrible things happen to people you’re supposed to#empathize with and see yourself in#and that the catharsis comes from seeing someone’s life go horribly wrong and still have the author hold your hand and tell you#‘this story mattered. even though it had a sad ending it still mattered. even if you don’t succeed your attempts matter’#grimdark tells you that the world sucks and nothing you do matters#well-written tragedy tells you that sometimes the world sucks but everything you do matters so so much#your story is still worth telling even if you never achieve that happy ending#or if you lose it along the way#people have inherent value and their stories deserve to be told no matter if they turn out okay or not#and in a reality that has no concept of ‘fair’ that shit just hits good man!!! feels good!!!!! it’s COMFORTING
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until i found this post, i´d struggled with this part of beastars.
Signs as Euripides’ tragedies
Aries: Heracles
Taurus: Iphigenia in Taurus (lol)
Gemini: Hecuba
Cancer: Hyppolytus
Leo: Orestes
Virgo: The Suppliants
Libra: Alcestis
Scorpio: Electra
Sagittarius: Andromache
Capricorn: Ion
Aquarius: The Bacchae
Pisces: Medea
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oh god it must feel insane to play guildenstern every night and say that line at the end “There must have been a moment, at the beginning, where we could have said–no. But somehow we missed it. Well, we’ll know better next time.” Like an audience only has to see it play out once but as that actor every single night for months you have to watch this character re-forget and make the same choices and fight against the same tide towards the inevitable conclusion and swear that there’s a way to do it differently next time. rinse repeat.
And now I’m thinking of Hermes from Hadestown, singing this part every night:
“‘Cause here’s the thing: To know how it ends / And still begin to sing it again / As if it might turn out this time – / I learned that from a friend of mine.”