Course Outline

The genre of tragedy allows people to experience this release of emotions. To appreciate that their lives are pretty damn chipper compared to the characters in the stories who face a fate you wouldn’t wish upon your worst enemy. Tragedy explores the “insanity, of man, pressed beyond the limit of endurance” with a series of unifying stylistic elements. It is these elements, the identifying, analysing and critical review of them, that creates the foundation of this course.