"On Wall Street, Pride Signals A Fall"

This article makes a very good point about how tragedy works. The best sentence to summarize would be "Greek tragedies, as Aristotle explained, rely on the punishment of successful but flawed heroes who reach for godly heights." (line 12). Writers and readers depend on a great hero to find peace, enlightenment, or success after a huge tragedy has happened. It pretty much defines what tragedy means.Take Oedipus for example. Throughout the play, Oediups lives a cursed life by marrying his mother, having children with, and killing his father. He does not know any of this however. The play revolves him finding out about who he really is and what he has done. Even though the play doesn't have a happy ending, it shows Oediups fufilling his original statement of having the murderer be banished. He also finds out the truth about himself and his family. In a way, that's the big "life lesson" of the story, but it took a tragedy for him to figure it out.