The main factor in mournfulness of a tragedy is the exhibition of an individual’s weakness against destiny. It is exactly at the time the protagonist, as the representative of the mankind and megalomania, reckons s/he has the right to choose his or her destiny based on his or her individual efforts that s/he notices the bitter truth of being defeated by the destiny and once again the deepest human emotions stemming from confrontation with the determinism of destiny are portrayed in a tragedy. Thus, the joy resulting from a tragic issue is a sort of humans’ collective archetype hence not limitable to a certain part of the world. The present study, drawing on the historical and literary evidence, firstly tries enumerating the conditions a society needs for the formation of a tragedy and secondly scrutinizes the reasons for the absence of tragedy in the east. Comparisons will be made within the current research paper between the tragedy reciting art in Greek and ancient Iran.
