Tragedy

Question 1

Booth

Answer 1

‘we use the word tragedy when we are confronted with a sudden invasion of our finite consciousness by the fact of infinite possibility – when our minds are sites for a domestic collision of the understanding and the fact of infinity’

Question 2

Yeats

Answer 2

‘Tragedy must always be a drowning and breaking of the dykes that separate man from man’

Question 3

Williams

Answer 3

tragedy is ‘not a single and permanent fact’ but contextually variant
‘tragic act is rooted in disorder’