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Catastrophe

Catastrophe

A catastrophe is the final scene of  a tragedy in which the action ends with the death of the hero and other characters. Catastrophe takes place in the last scene of King Lear in which all the important characters- King Lear, Cordelia, Regan, Goneril, Edmund and Gloucester- die. 

In Othello Catastrophe occurs when Othello kills Desdemona and then kills himself. 

The catastrophe of Hamlet is in the death of Hamlet, Gertrude and Laertes ( son to Polonius ). Catastrophe is the tragic outcome of a tragedy.