The exposure to tragic literature provides a unique attitude towards the human experience in dealing with pain, mortality, and vulnerability. The tragic genre is not just a collection of unfortunate events, but a tool to reformulate mentally and emotionally, so the genre shows that misfortune can be used to develop ethically, develop compassion, and create solidarity (Christensen et al., 2022). The paper follows the evolution of tragedy beginning with the tenets of the ancient Greece drama to the medieval and Renaissance versions of the tragedy up to the present-day existential types of tragedy, thus making it clear that the tragic experience is more than a form of negation and is more of affirmation. The paper imposes that, amidst integrating Aristotelian poetics, existential philosophy and modern-day psychological resilience theory, it is through the notion of tragic hope which is endurance anchored in dignity and creating meaning through embracing darkness that emerges. In turn, tragedy developed the moral imagination, which promotes resilience and recognizes the seriousness of the real world and, at the same time, seeks connection and meaning, and an examination of Sophocles, Shakespeare, Hosseini, McCarthy work proves it.
Reshaping Darkness: A New Prospect for Tragic Literature from the Perspective of Hope, Resilience and Novel Connotations
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