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Theater/Literature
A mother’s revenge turns love into horror , one of the earliest emotional tragedies. -
Philosophy
Socrates defends truth and reason, accepting death with dignity. -
Literature
Exile and loss transformed into a spiritual journey toward redemption. -
Art History
Mary’s grief immortalized in marble, sorrow made divine. -
Theater
The prince’s grief and indecision reveal the tragedy of human thought and action. -
Art
A painting of Ophelia drowning in what looks like a wedding dress after her fathers death.Ophelia was in love with Hamlet and hoped to marry him. The wedding dress could symbolize the life she never had and her crushed dreams of becoming a bride. -
Architecture
was destroyed by German bombing during World War II in 1942. The building was left as a preserved ruin, with its skeletal facade and open-air interior serving as a physical reminder of wartime destruction and the sudden loss of a cultural landmark. Its current form uses absence and decay to powerfully symbolize the violence of the conflict and the resilience of Malta. -
Art History
captures the sadness of Cleopatra's loyal staff and her final, desperate choice to die rather than be captured by the Romans. It highlights the sorrowful end of the Egyptian queen and the end of her entire empire. -
Art
The Old Guitarist is tragic as it shows Picasso's Blue Period despair, showing a blind, figure clinging to his guitar amidst poverty, representing universal human suffering, isolation, and the struggle for dignity in a bleak world, reflecting Picasso's own poverty and grief after a friend's suicide. -
Art
A battlefield filled with destruction everywhere showing the tragedy of war, it shows how tragedy is everywhere -
Film
it shows how war destroys a way of life and leaves its characters unable to find happiness. This is shown in the scene where Rhett and Scarlett's daughter, Bonnie, dies in a horseriding accident, a loss that permanently destroys their marriage. -
History
The decaying mummified face in a barren landscape with its eye sockets and mouth filled with smaller similar faces symbolizes endless suffering
Inspired by the Spanish Civil War -
Music
Uses her delivery to transform the lyrics of a hopeful reunion song into an expression of permanent loss. The line, "I'll be seeing you in all the old familiar places," suggests the loved one is gone forever, existing only as a painful memory in everyday life -
Photography
The human cost of war captured in imagery -
Art
contrasts the vulnerability of naked, innocent civilians with the dehumanized, robotic soldiers who are about to execute them. The painting uses a stark composition, an expressionistic style with distorted figures, and a bleak landscape emphasize the senseless horror of war and the destruction of innocent life.