The Pleasures Of Tragedy Analysis

Meta – Response Effect on Art

In “The Pleasures of Tragedy,” the author Susan Feagin discuses with her audience the impact of direct responses and meta responses and explains how it relates to the tragic world of theatre. How the author defines direct responses is, “Only in the sense that it is a response to the qualities and content of the work of art.” (97) and that a meta response is known as “It is how one feels about and what one thinks about one 's responding (directly) in the way one does to the qualities and content of the work.” (97) but to be more direct in the tragedy scene a direct response can be seen as non-pleasing experiences and/or unhappy endings in which it brings the audience together when showing conflict that impacts everyone to come together and vice versa with meta response where we see something emotionally tragic such as a character’s death and we all come together and analyze what happen in the tragedy and connect it within own lives. Feagin mentions “in order to find the pleasures in tragedy, “There can be a unity of feeling among members of humanity, that we are not alone, and that these feelings are at the heart of morality itself,” which represent to me that tragic events which occur are not as tragic as it seems to be when so many people from the audience can relate to such tragic events. When feeling well connected to the event that’s when we make assumptions as an audience that we can agree to an emotional extent which is also known as a