We find two kinds of responses that tragedy offers. First, to take the experience as a grim reminder of 'the special providence in the fall of a sparrow', to borrow a phrase from Hamlet, and, thus, to remain in awe of unknown forces working against man and his purposes. Or to consider the experience as a result of personal imperfection that can be corrected in all probability. The first choice has a practical completeness about it, while the second emanates from a mind agitated and resentful.