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Tragic Love
Love is one of the most important emotions because love exists anywhere. The definition of love is that someone gives one’s mind without any rewards. All people in the world live with love. In addition, love has no boundary between different age, different countries, etc. People mostly think that love is definitely beautiful because they hope their love to become happy. However, there is also tragic love which ends with extremely sad farewell or death. Of course, nobody is able to judge tragic love first. This is because even though it is tragic love, love starts with extreme thrill; not hatred. The Dramas, which are Antigone and Death of a Salesman, are definitely tragedies because both movies end with terrible and pitiable scenes. When both movies start on the screen, nobody thinks that these are tragedies. The first scene of the movie Antigone describes a battlefield after a combat, and the first scene of the movie Death of a Salesman just represents a daily life of old couple. However, the stories of both dramas play toward a dreadful situation drastically. In addition, most problems of these two dramas occurred because of love between family members. Originally, when people think about love, they never feel bad emotions such as disgust and repulsion; however, these plays do. In Antigone, there is tragic love between Antigone and Haemon, Death of a Salesman deals in tragic love between Willy and his family members, and my own similar experience of tragic love.
In the movie Antigone, there is tragic love between Antigone and Haemon because Antigone and Haemon were dead because of love. Antigone is a fiancée of Haemon, and Haemon is a son of a king Creon. A reason for Antigone’s death is that she disobeyed from the king’s order. The order was that nobody can bury Polynices who did not follow the king Creon. However, Antigone buried him herself without any notices to the king because she really loved her brother. So, the king made Antigone to be locked in a cave to make her die even though he did not want her death. After she was locked in the cave, Haemon went to his father to save his fiancée; however, Creon did not accept his son’s request. When the king went to the cave to make Antigone to be unlocked, Antigone had already committed suicide. Haemon also saw this terrible situation at the same time, and he swung his sword to his father because of extreme anger. However, he did not succeed to attack, and he also committed suicide by using his sword to follow Antigone because of his enormous love. Thus, because love led the death of Antigone and Haemon, this drama is a tragedy in tragic love.
The movie Death of a Salesman deals in tragic love between Willy and his family members because Willy was dead for getting insurance because of love. At first, Willy worked as a salesman during long time for being success, and he hoped his sons to be successful. So, a relationship of Willy and his family was good enough because they were looked as a normal family. Moreover, Willy and his wife Linda loved so much each other. However, he was given the boot from his company, and his two sons became corrupt. He was lost to grief after these bad happenings occurred because Willy started cheating on another woman; not Linda. Like this affair ended up destroying the relationship of his family. Willy, Linda, and two sons became really aggressive, and they started fighting everyday as time goes on. At the end, Willy realized a problem, and he tried to reconcile with his family. However, after reconciliation, Willy immediately went out to drive to die alone for the insurance because he judged himself that it is the best way for his family. Thus, there is tragic love in this play because love for his family derived the death of Willy.
I also had a similar experience of tragic love because it ended with extremely sad farewell. At that time, I was a student who wanted to be a singer, and I had a girlfriend who is one year older than me. We loved so much each other because we always said “we are one of the best couples.” However, I got a terrible trouble which was vocal nodules. I was extremely frustrated because I had to stop singing during the period of treatment; however, it became more serious. I became an erratic person from a daily life, and I was also indifferent to my girlfriend. Before this problem occurred, I had always concentrated on my girlfriend even in practicing time for singing, and we had met at least five times per a week for dates. However, I was not concerned about everything from my girlfriend such as her behavior and her way of speaking after losing my dream. In addition, I always started an argument. However, she tried to understand me uncountable times even though these were obviously my faults. I had to realize her real love as soon as possible to make our relationship to be continued, but I could not. I always played with my friends, and I always ignored phone calls and texts from her. As a result, she became utterly tired from our relationship as time goes on, and she said farewell to me. It was possible to realize how she loved me after broke up because I could feel her vacancy. Even though I called her several times to grasp her mind again, she never came back with remaining only one word “I really loved you.”
