If tragedy elicits our compassion, comedy appeals to our self-interest. The former confronts life's failures with noble fortitude,... the latter seeks to circumvent them with shrewd nonchalance. The one leaves us momentarily in a mood of resignation, the other in a condition of euphoria.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is comedy which typifies, where it is tragedy which individualizes; where tragedy observes the nice distinctions between man an...d man, comedy stresses those broad resemblances which make it difficult to tell people apart.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »