On what you can’t say. (A thread!)
The emotional force of watching a tragedy, I think, comes from the internal struggle between “I don’t want this bad ending” and “but it’s inevitable.” Rehearsing that losing fight against the inevitable in order to learn to accept it.
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Any inevitability you thoroughly accept with a light heart, is not something you need to process through tragedy.
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(I also think that tragedy can be harmful as well as helpful; it can train people into “processing” and accepting sad things that are not inevitable. Seems possible that the Oresteia “taught” giving up on justice.)
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