What are the four great tragedies of life

The four tragedies: the loss of parents in youth, the loss of spouse in middle age, the loss of an only son in old age, and the absence of a good teacher in youth.

Mainly, it is a work that constitutes the basic content with the irreconcilable conflict between the main character in the play and the reality and its tragic ending. Most of its protagonists are representatives of people's ideals and aspirations.

Tragedy reveals the evils of life with a tragic ending, thus arousing the audience's grief and respect, and achieving the purpose of improving ideology and sentiment. Mr. Lu Xun has a pithy summary of tragedy: tragedy is the destruction of the valuable things in life for people to see. But Mr. Lu Xun's sentence does not sum up all, and has limitations, he proposed this is from the perspective of anti-traditional culture.

Expanded:

Tragedy has its origins in Ancient Greece, evolving from the ode to the god of wine, Dionysus, in the festival of the god of wine. In tragedy, the protagonist inevitably suffers a setback.

The hero suffers a lot, and even fails and loses his life, but his reasonable will, motives, ideals, and passions herald the coming of victory and success. The power of tragedy to shake the heart comes from the deepening of the personality of the tragic hero.