In chapter thirteen, Aristotle outlines an ideal of the central character of tragedy, the so-called tragic hero, and identifies the source of the character's downfall with something called hamartia.
One aspect of such reality is that tragic accidents and violence happen and they shock and traumatize the victim’s body, mind and soul at the time and for the rest of their life.
In the Gnostic view, the unconscious self of man is consubstantial with the Godhead, but because of a tragic fall it is thrown into a world that is completely alien to its real being.