Dramas {tragedy} can be about important actions, dramatize death, show degradation process, or depict person's life. Tragedy typically uses humorous scenes {comic relief}, to change viewpoint or change pace.
Tragedy often depicts new self-consciousness {anagnorisis} in the hero, through fact discovery, personal-trait recognition, communication, or disclosure.
Main characters have a character defect {tragic flaw} {hamartia}, such as pride, excess virtue, greed, lust, or power hunger.
Tragedy can have actions that result in opposite of intended effect {peripety}.
Tragedies {bourgeois tragedy} {domestic tragedy} can depict middle-class or lower-class family problems.
Dramas {heroic tragedy} {heroic drama} can be about love or honor among aristocrats and rulers.
Dramas {tragicomedy} can be about important situations, such as possible death, but with successful conclusions.
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