Unlike what is proposed in literature and theater, tragedy is neither a sad story nor an exciting epic rather it is an assessment of the psychological and physical power of the mankind. With all his or her weaknesses, the protagonist should alone make a decision in a tragedy and take an intervention alone and, in the end, shoulder the ramifications of his or her measures whereas this does not hold in latency. In latent genre, the situational context of the story moves towards the direction in which the protagonists can finally exonerate themselves and generalize the consequences of their actions to the external factors. The present study aims at enumeration of the features of latent genre in Rostam and Sohrab Story and comparison of them with the scales of an excellent tragedy in the same story so as to prove the idea that the only tragedy existent in personal literature is that introduced in Rostam and Esfandiyar story recounted as qualifying the criteria of latent genre.
