Tragedy is where a good person does not get what they deserve. Or just a really bad outcome.
In the House of Mirth by Edith Wharton Lilt Bart meets a sad end. King Lear and his daughter meet a very bad end in Shakespeare's play King Lear, as does Othello in Othello. Poor old Romeo and Juliet do not live happily after. Hamlet too met a nasty end. The list goes on and on google tragedy. Good luck.
Oedipus Rex epitomizes tragedy.
9/11 is one very good example of a national tragedy.
Irish Famine
Titanic sinking
9/11
Mother and five children killed in house fire
AYNYONE VOTING FOR OBAMA AFTER ALL THE LIES AND DAMAGE DONE TO OUR COUNTRY THAT IS A TRAGEDY
DEATH.
DEATH is tragedy.
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