The correct answer is B) Depress
The purpose of tragedy is ultimately to depress the audience.
A Tragedy has the purpose of depressing people. Tragedy is a type of drama that the Greek developed in their pieces of literature and plays. People in these stories had a lack, a probleme, a disease, a complex situation or a weakness that make the audience suffer and depress. Often, a character in the play or novel lives a terrible situation that makes it suffer. And some audiences like to suffer from the character drama.