This excerpt from Aristotle's Poetics illustrates an aspect of tragedy upon which many works, including Shakespeare's Othello and Sophocles Oedipus are based.

The plays of Oedipus the King and Othello both compare when it comes to their tragic endings. They both are seen as "tragedies" because of their tragic events and endings. In Oedipus the King, there are many events that happen during the play that are tragedies. Such events like the first event, happens in the beginning of the play. That event is the plague that has struck the city of Thebes. "The breath on incense rises form the city with a soun of prayer and lamentation." (Sophocles 1384). Oedipus is describing what the play has done to his city and its people. Even before this tragedy there was a previous one that had occurred before but was ignored a

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