Critic: The idealized world portrayed in romance literature is diametrically opposed to the debased world portrayed in satirical literature  Nevertheless, the major characters in both types of works have moral qualities that reflect the worlds in which they are presented  Comedy and tragedy, meanwhile, require that the moral qualities of major characters change during the course of the action
Ttherefore, neither tragedy nor comedy can be classified as satirical literature or romance literature
If a character in a tragedy is idealized at the beginning of the action depicted in the tragedy, he or she must be debased at the end.