i think i love tragedy as a genre because narratively, human life is a tragedy. and i do not mean human life is inherently tragic, or bad, or sad, or meaningless. not in the slightest. but that our lifetimes fit the genre conventions of tragedy in the classical sense because the end is written from the very beginning; we die. there is literally no other option. we are as powerless against death as oedipus was against killing his father and as phaedra was against falling in love with hippolytus. and we spend every day knowing this. and so our lives are, like tragedies, about the series of choices we make with the knowledge of an inevitable end written in stone always waiting for us in the finale, and how we choose to arrive there
from jean anouilh's antigone, if you even care
