The definition given (that the audience needs to have mixed feelings about the destruction of a human being for a play to be a tragedy) means that to establish ‘’ as a tragedy, we must be able to give evidence that not only is the audience made to feel sadness at Willy Loman’s demise, but also that they are made to feel that some measure of justice has been exacted on him for his behaviour both past and present. As this is the case I will first examine the reasons why the audience feels sadness at the misfortunes which befall ....