[-]. Tragedy

Tragedy was originally a study of tragedies in drama, and later expanded into a study of aesthetics and art, becoming an important category of aesthetics and artistic beauty.Tragedy or tragedy shows the contradiction or conflict between people's free will and objective necessity in social practice.

In a specific environment, the essential power of human beings is suppressed or denied, and objective inevitability temporarily overwhelms and overcomes human free will. When human beings encounter setbacks, they are temporarily denied by objective reality, and thus generate ethical and moral emotional power in human beings, and inspire lofty ideals. , or generate feelings of fear and pity.

Formally, tragedy is manifested in the struggle between two opposing forces, either due to the strength of certain decadent and reactionary forces, or due to the temporary rationality of certain forces, those who represent justice and social progress However, due to its weak strength or certain historical limitations, it has to suffer setbacks, sacrifices, and even failure in front of powerful opponents.

In terms of connotation, although those forces that represent the development direction of justice and social progress suffer failure, they fully affirm the positive significance of their existence, as well as the value of truth, goodness and beauty, thus heralding the inevitable demise of decadent and declining forces and the power of justice and progress The historical trend of inevitable victory.

Tragedy has distinct aesthetic features:

1. Tragedy art contains positive value orientation.

2. The art of tragedy reveals the power of personality.

3. Tragic art is full of rational spirit.

Tragedy produces pain first, and only by transforming pain into aesthetic pleasure can the mission of tragedy art be fulfilled.This is a complex conversion process.On the one hand, tragedy makes people witness the pain and sacrifice of the weak, and thus feel the impact and shock of the soul. Then, because of the inner purification effect of tragedy, it encourages the viewers to adhere to the concept of justice and progress, and to clarify the true and the false. The boundaries between right and wrong, good and evil, generate belief in the yearning and pursuit of beautiful ideals, and thus, aesthetic pleasure is produced in such spiritual movements.

[-]. Comedy

The aesthetic effect of comedy is mainly manifested as laughter, that is, the ridicule and negation of ugly, trite, and false things. Comedy laughter is the embodiment of people's wisdom and reason. In comedy, it is those ugly, trite, and false things that express Things with obvious joints and contradictions in form and content reveal their worthless, vulnerable emptiness and embarrassment, which arouses people's sincere and heartfelt hope and involuntary laughter.

In terms of form, the object of comedy is absurd, fallacious, and ridiculous. It appears in the form of non-essential and seemingly beautiful, but it presents an ugly or worthless original shape, which is negated, ridiculed, and satirized.In terms of content, the emptiness and ugliness of the comedy object heralded the victory and success of human beings over the essence of ugliness, thus showing the essential power of the subject.And in its effect, comedy gives lighthearted pleasure.

Comedy can be divided into farce, satire, and humorous drama, which are three important forms of comedy.Funny shows the conflicts and comedic reconciliation between man and nature. It is the negation of the stupidity of the past by human beings with their own wisdom. The despicable, ugly, and inferior people's deeds and essences are revealed and denounced freely, and its form shows the condescension and ruthless denial of the righteous to the deviant: humor contains the contradiction between human beings and themselves, and it is human beings who use themselves The reflection and contemplation of people and objects realized by the wisdom of the subject, its form contains a touch of self-deprecation or the witty resolution of contradictions, which further shows the self-confidence and depth of the subject.It can be seen from this that joy is an art form full of individual life, and it is the proof of the free and conscious life essence of human beings.

The artistic characteristics of comedy are, on the one hand, to make people laugh, and on the other hand, to "contain the grandeur in the spectrum", that is, to separate the profound ideological connotation and social significance from the humorous form, so as to realize the emptiness and ugliness of the object. mocking and belittling, to achieve publicity and affirmation of justice and positive objects.

What comedy and tragedy have in common is that they both affirm the purposeful nature of human beings and the essence of regular social practice by expressing the contradictions and conflicts between truth and goodness, form and content. Tragedy is often based on the temporary failure or setback of the subject, but it foretells the objective trend that justice will inevitably defeat evil.Comedies, on the other hand, use exaggeration to show the publicity or temporary victory of ugly things, but use their inherent irrationality to see through the essence of ugly things.Comedy brings people a sense of comedy.The sense of comedy includes people's sublime sense of affirmation of truth, goodness and beauty in the process of realizing the objectification of human essential power, the pride of self-confidence, the superiority of ridiculing and teasing ugly forms, and the resulting Therefore, the beauty of comedy is essentially a pleasure close to entertainment.

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