It’s pathos. Pathos makes us feel sympathy, horror. It appeals to our emotions. It can make us cry, it can make us feel sorry. On the other hand, it’s very difficult to assess blame.

It was I,’ and that’s a real man.

You’re not free, you are fated,

There’s no free will here. Oedipus acts out the script. How can we blame him?

In Greek tragedy, you can’t go down crying,

It’s not ennobling in any way,

Pathos would make you cry. It would enlist your sentiments. Pathos has those things as its end. They want you to feel emotions. The emotions rule. Tragedy doesn’t think of those as its end. It’s...