Tragedy and the Common Man

In his piece,"Tragedy and the Common Man," Arthur Miller, argues that both the "common man" and royalty are subject to the same tragedies. He states that there is no difference in these except for the simple fact that the higher you are in a social scale, the more you are affected by these tragedies. He also discusses the ranking that is given to those who are tragic heroes. "Insistence upon the rank of the tragic hero, or the so-called nobility of his character is really but a clinging to the outwards forms of tragedy. However, later in the piece he acknowledges the fact that "tragedy is necessarily allied to pessimism." Miller expresses his views towards society's definition of a tragedy and argues that "in truth tragedy implies more optimism in its author than does comedy and that its final result ought to be the reinforcement of the on lookers' brightest opinions of the human animal."

Personally, I would have to agree with Miller's first couple of views because tragedy hits disregarding who you are. However, I do not seem to completely understand how exactly tradegy implies any type of optimism.