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The Tragic Hero In Antigone
1,454 wordsThe Tragic Hero in the Play Antigone Antigone, which was written by Sophocles, is possibly the first written play that still exists today (www. image 1). There is much controversy between who the tragic hero is in the play. Some people say Antigone, some say Creon, others even say Haemon. I believe Creon displays all of the characteristics of a tragic hero. He receives compassion through the audience, yet recognizes his weaknesses, and his downfalls from his own self-pride, stubbornness, and con...
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Stone Angel Social Standing
1,652 wordsSelf-Inflicted Isolation and Loneliness I never realized until this moment how cut off I am. (Laurence, 1988, 294) In the novel The Stone Angel, author Margaret Laurence portrays a lonely old woman by the name of Hagar. Over the course of the novel, Hagar reflects back on the memories that have created the story of her life. Hagar is a deeply lonely woman, and much of that loneliness is self-inflicted. This mental isolation is caused by her stubbornness, her pride, and the blindness that she has...
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Antigone Pride And Conflict Of Law
970 wordsSophocles Antigone, in its later phases is no longer about the conflict of law; It is about stubbornness and self will, about the sin of refusing to listen; about a man who has never been told. Conflict of law, presents the initial disturbance within Thebes. Creon, King of Thebes, refuses to bury the body of Polynices, for in his eyes Polynices is his countrys enemy Antigone pg. 131. Thus, despite breaking the laws of the gods, Creon holds his power higher than that of God and heavens and enforc...
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Made A Mistake Abuse Of Power
522 wordsIn the play Antigone I choose Creon to be the tragic hero because he is the King of Thebes and he looses everything he has. Creon being King makes the audience believe that something like that can happen to the King then what can happen to us. Antigone the niece of Creon, The sister of Polyneices was punished by Creon for burying Polyneices after his death, Creon has forbidden anybody to do so. Once Creon punished Antigone the blind prophet Teiresias told him that the Gods will take revenge for ...
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Electro Shock Therapy P Mc Murphy
1,100 wordsThe role of the hero in Ken Kesey's novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, is played by Randle P. Mc Murphy, a wrongly committed mental patient with a lust for life. Mc Murphys personal qualities that gain the respect and admiration from his fellow patients are also responsible for his tragic downfall. These qualities include his temper, which is the reason for the tension between him and nurse Ratched; his stubbornness, which results in his numerous painful disciplinary treatments; also his fre...
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Rises Must Converge Good Country People
1,549 wordsIn writing many authors have different techniques or styles in which they use in order to reveal their themes. These vehicles are what give fiction its ability to relate to people and life in general. By using setting, irony, and characterization in her short fiction Flannery OConnor reveals a theme of a both cynical and sinister universe in which death is imminent and impartial. She specializes in using artistic representation of human character or motives to accentuate this morbid theme. In he...
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Plays A Major Role Willy Believes
1,090 wordsA Greek tragedy is a story, which involves a character with a tragic flaw that leads to his or her downfall. In the American tragedy Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller, Willy Loan displays many traits, which lead to his downfall. Willy Loan displays a great deal of stubbornness and a warped sense of success as well as a lack of parenting skills. Throughout the play, Willy reveals many bizarre and uncommon characteristics that in the end contribute to his suicide. Willys stubbornness and pride ...
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Symbolism In A Rose For Emily By Faulkner
880 wordsWilliam Faulkner's A Rose for Emily is a wonderful short story that begins with the funeral of the main character, Emily Grierson. Faulkner uses an anonymous narrator that is considered to be the voice of the town and tells the story out of chronological order. The story basically uses the life of Emily Grierson as an allegory for the changes in the post-bellum South after the Civil War. Through the use of a series of symbols, such as Emily's house, hair, clothing, and even Emily's rose, Faulkne...
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Bury Her Brother Sentenced To Death
720 wordsWas Antigone a Tragic Heroine? ? Tragedy, to be at its finest, requires a complex, not a simple, structure, and its structure should also imitate fearful and pitiful events. ? These words of wisdom come from the great philosopher Aristotle. Antigone, written by Sophocles, exemplifies Aristotle? s definition of tragedy, and more precise the tragic heroine. Antigone the main character / heroine in this tragic tale, risks her life to bury her brother Polyneices. As she pleased the Gods, she was pun...
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Refuses To Accept Sense Of Pride
237 wordsSheena Deans Mr. Mason 3 rd Period May 1, 2000 Report: Julius Caesar It can be concluded that the death of Julius Caesar was self inflicted due to his sense of pride, stubbornness, and nativity. In the play, when Caesar is offered the crown of Rome, by Marc Antony, he refuses to accept it three times. But then he secretly accepts it showing that he was to proud to accept it publicly. Caesar is warned by a soothsayer to, ? Beware of the ides of March (Shakespeare)? . After hearing this he ignores...
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Willy Loman Negative Impact
733 wordsDelusions of grandeur and failure to accept reality can be very detrimental to not only an individual, but also to those around him. In Arthur Millers Death of a Salesman, Willy Loman suffers from these delusions. He lives in a parallel world to ours where facing reality never comes into play and spends his entire life in a childlike illusion. Charley, Willys friend sums up Willys life when he asks him, When the hell are you going to grow up? He is idealistic, stubborn, has a false sense of impo...
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Billy Budd Herman Melville
565 wordsHerman Melville created many characters in his writing that had a mysterious nature to them. Melville himself had a bit of mystery in his own personal character and this quality is shown through many characters such as Claggart and Bartleby. Besides having a mysterious side to him, this author was stubborn. Even though his work wasn t always praised he remained determined and pretty much always wrote what he wanted to write. This stubbornness was shown through his characters Captain Veere in Bil...
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Interventions From Gods Body Of His Son Achilleus
1,020 wordsIn Book 24, the scene between Priam and Achilleus, which may also be called The Banquet, served as the climax of the poem. During this scene a series of events developed themselves to resolve some very important situations in the Iliad Achilleus was returned from his deep sorrow and anger for his dear friend Patroklos. Also, he realized that it was time to stop his great stubbornness, to leave behind his behavior, to change. The interference from the gods and symbolism were used by Homer through...
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Man Of Great Wife
766 wordsTartuffe is a classic story of deceit by one who is trusted and respected. Tartuffe, the deceitful holy man, is living in the house of Oregon. Oregon has opened his doors to Tartuffe, and he greatly respects him for being the good holy man he was thought to be. The rest of the family believe that Tartuffe is a fake and a con. Oregon and Madam Parcelle are the two which believe in his holy reputation. Tartuffe convinces Oregon that he is an incredible man of great holy stature, and Oregon proceed...
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Act I Sc Goneril And Regan
862 wordsPride, arrogance and the refusal to accept reality is a failing in humans. It causes them to overlook the obvious and leads to errors in judgement. In tragedies, this is a leading cause in why the most apparent flaws in judgement are often overlooked by characters. In the play King Lear, by William Shakespeare, King Lear refuses to accept the reasoning that his Fool puts forth regarding Lear and his kingdoms well being. To some, it is natural to ignore advice from people of a lower social standi...
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Jean Valjean Les Miserables
471 wordsI found the book Les Miserables, written by Victor Hugo, to be an all around enjoyable story. The way Hugo arranged and worded his sentences were very clever. Because of these sentences, during the slow or boring parts, I remained interested. However, many parts of the book I found to be confusing. Hugo did not seem to give much information or background about why the characters did what they did. One of the most puzzling parts in Les Miserables was Javert's stubbornness to capture Jean Valjean ...
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Cuckoo Nest Electro Shock Therapy
1,047 wordsThe role of the hero in Ken Kesey? s novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo? s Nest, is played by Randle P. Mc Murphy, a wrongly committed mental patient with a lust for life. The qualities that garner Mc Murphy respect and admiration from his fellow patients are also responsible for his tragic downfall. These qualities include his temper, which leads to his being deemed disturbed, his stubbornness, which results in his receiving numerous painful disciplinary treatments, and finally his free spirit, wh...
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