Tragedy historical development

His two-part tragedy Faust (1806, 1832) provides surprisingly detailed insight. In fact, the tragedy includes a certain genealogy - Faust s father, Faust himself, and Faust s famulus Wagner - that reflects his view on the historical development of chemistry. In Part I (vv. 1034-55),... 

An example of an incipient Tragedy of the Commons is the gradual failure of antibiotics to control bacterial infections. We all want access to antibiotics when we need them. Some countries keep control over their prescription, but in other countries people may buy antibiotics over the counter in any pharmacy. Also, some doctors have historically been too wilfing to prescribe antibiotics to insistent patients with non-bacterial infections. The net effect is that antibiotic-resistant strains of many common infections have developed, and there is now serious concern amongst many medical experts that it is only a matter of time before there is a pandemic of untreatable strains of bacterial infections such as gonorrhea or tuberculosis. 

Yet most black families in the postbellum South did not become landowners although common and even predominant in some localities, landownership eluded the great majority. Bond therefore intended Forty Acres and a Mule to be much more than a dramatic account of a shootout and a lynching, more even than a treatise on the black family. Developing his own ideas as a historian. Bond turned the tragedy of the Wilson family into a metaphor for the larger historical tragedy of African Americans since slavery. 

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