In all his tragedies Shakespeare represents the tragic aspect of life, the tragic fact. They have up to a certain point a common form or structure, however the question here is: what is Shakespeare's conception of tragedy? Shakespearean tragedy is the story of one person - the hero (or in love tragedies hero and the heroine). The story leads up to and ends in the death of the hero. The story depicts the troubled part …showed first 75 words of 1796 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1796 total…the principle of good which animates them. They also acquire our respect and confidence. Finally, a tragedy would not be a tragedy if it didn't involve a painful mystery. We remain confronted with the inexplicable impression of a world striving for perfection, but bringing to birth along with the good an evil which it is able to overcome only by self-torture and self-waste. And this fact is tragedy. The tragedy is the waste of good.