GenreGenre is a term used to classify or describe a type or form of literature. Although this seems like a simple concept, it is actually a very complicated classification system. The reason for this complication is that literature does not always follow the typical characteristics established by this type of genre. For example, one of the characteristics of the tragedy genre is that there is a tragic hero who is in a position of power. In classical tragedy this is true, as can be seen in Sophocles' Oedipus the King, because the tragic hero is Oedipus, who is the king of Thebes. In Renaissance tragedy this is not always the case, as in Shakespeare's Hamlet the tragic hero is only a prince. Where this characteristic is completely abandoned is in Eugene O'Neill's modern tragedy, Desire Under the Elms, where the character who plays the tragic hero is a farmer and it is difficult to determine which character is the real hero tragic. Yet all these plays are tragedies, despite their variations. Another aspect of genre that makes the concept difficult to define is that there are parts of plays that fall under other genres. An example of this is seen in parts of Desire Under the Elms, such as the party scene at the Cabot house. Although this play is a tragedy, in this scene there is comedy in the witty remarks of the partygoers and in Ephraim's silly dancing. As can be seen, the simple concept of genre poses many complications when used to define a piece of literature. Genre is divided into two categories, namely figurative genre and narrative genre. The first category, representational genre, includes the “number and types of voices” in the literary work. (handout) There are three types of representative gender. The first type is the narrator, which is when a speaker addresses the audience directly and that speaker is responsible for telling the whole story to the audience without the help of other opinions or sides of the story. the story of the other people involved. An example of this is when a comedian stands up. The audience can hear the funny story of, say, when the comedian learned to ride a bike and his father quickly let go and the comedian fell, etc...