"Though its conclusion must be, by its premise, outwardly calamitous, though it must speak to those who know that the good man is cut off and that the fairest things are the first to perish, yet it must leave them, as Othello does, content that this is so." - Krutch, The Tragic Fallacy
I feel kind of bad for agreeing that we find comfort and content in sad endings. It's kind of like how when you're watching a movie and the person is just being so DUMB, that eventually you stop caring. When something finally happens (usually bad), we're satisfied. "Finally! They had it coming."
I think it's partly that we like to be reminded that bad things happen to everybody, and that doesn't seem to change no matter how much time goes by, no matter how much society changes, we will always have bad things happen to us. We don't feel so bad about our own mistakes. "We're only human", yeah?
I feel kind of bad for agreeing that we find comfort and content in sad endings. It's kind of like how when you're watching a movie and the person is just being so DUMB, that eventually you stop caring. When something finally happens (usually bad), we're satisfied. "Finally! They had it coming."
I think it's partly that we like to be reminded that bad things happen to everybody, and that doesn't seem to change no matter how much time goes by, no matter how much society changes, we will always have bad things happen to us. We don't feel so bad about our own mistakes. "We're only human", yeah?