What is the significance of tragedy?

The significance of tragedy is that life is never a comedy, tragedy is just a way to show a more probable side. And as a side note: optimism without pessimism is not really optimism, optimism without pessimism is ignorant optimism.

Tragedy is one of the main genres of drama, mainly the irreconcilable conflict between the protagonist and the reality and its tragic end, which constitutes the basic content of the work. 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 the ideological 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 statement does not sum up the whole picture, and has limitations, he put forward this is from the perspective of anti-traditional culture.

History

Tragedy is one of the major genres of theater. It has its origins in ancient Greece and evolved from the ode to the god of wine in the ritual of the festival of the god of wine. In tragedy, the protagonists inevitably suffer setbacks, trials and tribulations, and even lose their lives in failure, but their reasonable wills, motives, ideals, and passions herald victory and success.

The earliest tragedy in the world is the ancient Greek tragedy. Ancient Greek tragedy is the origin of the whole Western theater, so tragedy is the oldest subject of drama.

The three great tragic poets of ancient Greece were Euripides, Sophocles, and Aeschylus ("the father of tragedy").