Analysis

2021

Analysis: 

Who is the hero of your tragedy? 

The hero of my tragedy is Buzz Aldrin. Buzz Aldrin was born with a high magnitude; he was born as a child of US president, President John F. Kenned. According to my story, “As a son of President John F. Kennedy, I tell myself, ‘I will bring back the aura trophies.’ Indeed, this quote indicates that my hero of the tragedy, Buzz Aldrin, matches with a definition of a tragic hero from Aristotle’s because he was born in a high position in. Therefore, Buzz Aldrin is the main character of my story or the tragic hero of ‘The Best and The Worst Destination’ because of his position in society.   

Main idea of my tragedy 

The main idea and message about the life of my tragedy is that society is not beautiful like what we saw when we were young. When we were young, we were innocent, everything looks perfect, everybody is kind, but as we grow up, we start to see the dark side of other people. For example, from my story in chapter 4, “We were shocked. I never thought that he would do that”. Buzz Aldrin never thought that Charles Duke, who has been helping him to become successful in this mission, would do this to him. Charles Duke ended his life without any guilt. This clearly shows that everybody has their dark side that we could not see yet, but at last, it will show up to society. 

 How does my story fit Aristotle’s definition of a tragedy? 

My story fits Aristotle’s definition of a tragedy because it creates pity and fear in the audience. Throughout the play, the audience can see that Buzz Aldrin was a careful person, he checked the parachutes so that everything would be fine even before they launched, but his carefulness wasn’t enough to fight with the society around him. According to the last chapter, Buzz said, “I already checked the parachutes, and it was there!!!”. Clearly, this statement shows that Buzz was very upset with himself because he thought it was his fault; he checked it, but he didn’t know that it would be gone. The audience should feel pity for him because since the beginning of the play, Buzz is a good person, and he cares about this mission very much, he did not do anything wrong, but society did this to him.