 A second deficiency concerns our interest in the artistic representations of things positively disagreeable, such as our interest in the performances of tragedies. The difficulty is that it seems we ought always to prefer representations of the agreeable, since they alone are capable of pleasing according to both principles so far advanced. Hence Addison recruits a third principle of pleasure: representations of the disagreeable please us by the contrast they present between the disagreeable scene they represent and the comparatively agreeable situation in which we find ourselves: