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** <i>[[MacBeth]]</i> - MacBeth commits regicide, and then himself comes to an untimely end on the battlefield
** <i>[[MacBeth]]</i> - MacBeth commits regicide, and then himself comes to an untimely end on the battlefield
** <i>[[King Lear]]</i> - Cordelia comes to the aid of her father and is imprisoned and sentenced to death
** <i>[[King Lear]]</i> - Cordelia comes to the aid of her father and is imprisoned and sentenced to death
'''American Tragedies'''
* [[F.Scott Fitzgerald]]
** <i>[[The Great Gatsby]]</i> - Gatsby is betrayed by his own dream, nurtured by meretricious society
* [[Ernest Hemingway]]
** <i>[[A Farewell to Arms]]</i> - The hero is disillusioned by war, makes a separate peace, deserts, and joins his beloved in neutral Switzerland. His beloved dies in child birth and he realizes society will get you one way
* [[Nathaniel Hawthorne]]
** <i>[[The Scarlet Letter]]</i> - The heroine who has committed adultery must live with the unresolved resulting conflict in her min and heart while living out her life in a gray and tragic isolation


== Some Views on Tragedy ==
== Some Views on Tragedy ==
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