The phrase "tragic plot" is correct and can be used in written English
It is typically used when discussing a story, play, or movie that has a sad or unfortunate outcome for the main characters. Example: The tragic plot of Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" has captivated audiences for centuries with its tale of two star-crossed lovers from feuding families.
But, as any decent tragic plot demands, his victory was illusory.
The tragic plot twist ultimately feels like an easy way to render moot all the challenging questions raised earlier.
The reasons his story so easily took root, Ms. Hughes-Hallett says, have to do with its clever manipulation of existing stereotypes and its highly melodramatic, tragic plot.
He believes truth lies in the open-ended, the "carnivalesque": a tragic plot expresses "the profound crime of all self-asserting individuality".
Will Mr. Ledger's death cast a pall over "The Dark Knight," whose tragic plot turns already make it much darker than "Batman Begins"?
Such tragic plot points were especially common in the theater of the 20th century, from Lillian Hellman's play "The Children's Hour" (1934) and Tennessee Williams's "Suddenly Last Summer 195858) through "The Laramie Project" (2000).
Many tragic plots, moreover, revolve around the ramifications of family curses, of "original sins" committed by a patriarch that come back to haunt later, innocent generations.
With rare exceptions, subsequent tragedians abandoned real-life events as the bases for tragic plots, turning instead to their culture's rich store of myths.
* * * But if the Kennedy backstory reminds us irresistibly of tragedy and its gloomy theodicies, J.F.K. himself powerfully recalls a key character from epic — from Homer's Iliad, the grandest of epics and the source for so many tragic plots.
Conceivably, its basic situation might have fascinated the great 17th-century French playwright Jean Racine, whose own complex tragic plots often concern unreciprocated loves and clashes between passion and duty.
But if the Kennedy backstory reminds us irresistibly of tragedy and its gloomy theodicies, J.F.K. himself powerfully recalls a key character from epic — from Homer's Iliad, the grandest of epics and the source for so many tragic plots.
