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Color Purple And Macbeth
1,165 words
What is a perfect human? Human perfection may be
measured by physical ability or intellectual
achievement; however, it may also be measured by
strength of character, and in this realm humans
may often fall short. Weakness of character, shown
through various character flaws, causes most of
the hardships in life. Literature such as
Shakespeare's Macbeth and Alison Walker's The
Color Purple contain three levels of characters:
setting characters, secondary characters and the
main character. Combined...
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Ability To Manipulate Ability To Control
1,015 words
There have been many writers who have astonished
the literary world with their configuration of
short stories, but none of them have perfected the
art as well as Nathaniel Hawthorne. Hawthorne
wrote in a time period when Fredrick Douglas was
paving the road to racial freedom, Ralph Waldo
Emerson wanted to world to be seen through the
transparent eyeball, and Henry David Thoreau was
living the unfettered life. In comparison to the
modern writings of his time, Hawthorne's style was
viewed as outda...
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High Social Status Marry His Mother
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Over the course of time, many things tend to
change significantly. Such is the case of tragic
literature and the cathartic effect it has on the
reader, which has deteriorated a great deal from
Sophocles writing of the true tragedy, Oedipus.
Hamlet exemplifies partial decomposition of
catharsis whereas Miss Julie epitomizes an almost
total collapse of the cathartic effect. It is
assumed that the higher the status of the tragic
hero, the easier for the 1990 s audience to
identify the characters tr...
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Tragic Flaw Act Iii
334 words
Shakespeare's Hamlet is a play written to make the
reader or director think for himself and create
what he thinks to be Hamlets tragic flaw come
alive. Any argument could be well supported or
demolished on quotes and actions from the text and
one's interpretation of these. The bottom line is
not what is Hamlet's tragic flaw, but what tragic
flaw can best be supported by the reader. Hamlet's
tragic flaw is his inconsistent approach to
problems. In the scenarios that may call for
quick, decisive b...
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Tragically Inane The Cherry Orchard And Six Characters
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The deconstruction of the conventions of the
theatre in Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard
predicts the more radical obliteration presented
later by Pirandello in Six Characters in Search of
an Author. The seed of this attack on convention
by Chekhov are the inherent flaws of all the
characters in The Cherry Orchard. The lack of any
character with which to identify or understand
creates a portrait much closer to reality than the
staged drama of Ibsen or other playwrights who
came before. In reco...
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Hamartia Oedipus' Tragic Flaw
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According to Aristotle, the tragic hero is impeded
by a distinguishable characteristic or character
trait which leads to his ultimate demise. This
trait is known as hamartia, or the "tragic flaw. "
This characteristic is said to not only lead to
the hero's demise but may also enable the reader
to sympathize with the character. So it follows
that in Oedipus the King, a Greek tragedy, the
tragic hero Oedipus should have some sort of flaw.
However, after close examination of the text, no
distinguis...
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Macbeth As A Tragedy According To Aristotle Definition
907 words
While the genre of some works of literature can be
debated, Macbeth written by William Shakespeare
seems to fit into a perfect mold. Aristotle's
definition of a tragedy, combining seven elements
that he believes make the genre of a work a
tragedy, is that mold. Displaying all seven
aspects, Macbeth fits the definition precisely.
Key elements in the play substantiate the fact
that Macbeth is a serious story, the first
elements of Aristotle's definition. From the first
lines of the play, the mood ...
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Tragic Heroes Antigone And Hamlet
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Tragic Heroes Antigone and Hamlet Aristotle once
defined a concept of tragic hero, which should be
a character with a flaw in personality or judgment
that will lead this character to some actions
resulting into disaster. In tragedies Hamlet by
William Shakespeare, and in Sophocles Antigone
main characters fit the concept of a tragic hero
perfectly as they meet all of the requirements to
be a tragic hero which are: a person of noble
birth who occupies a powerful enough position to
make choices wh...
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Modern Critical Views Romeo And Juliet
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Romeo and Juliet: Romeo A Tragic Hero Shakespeare
is a well known author who wrote in the 1500 s.
Many of his plays are classified as tragedies.
According to the Oxford dictionary of current
English, a tragedy is described as a serious
disaster or a sad event. In Shakespeare plays,
tragedy is identified as a story that ends
unhappily due to the fall of the protagonist,
which is the tragic hero. For a play to be a
tragedy, there must be a tragic hero. In the play
Romeo and Juliet, Romeo is the tr...
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Thane Of Glamis Thane Of Cawdor
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Macbeth: Macbeth A Tragic Hero (Sometimes a tragic
hero is created, not through his own villainy),
but rather through some flaw in him, he being one
of those who are in high station and good fortune,
like Oedipus and Thyestes and the famous men of
such families as those. (Poetics, Aristotle).
Every great tragedy is dominated by a protagonist
who has within himself a tragic flaw, too much or
too little of one of Aristotle's twelve virtues.
In Macbeth, by William Shakespeare, Macbeth, a
great Scot...
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Lady Macbeth Shakespeare Macbeth
1,160 words
What is a perfect human? Human perfection may be
measured by physical ability or intellectual
achievement; however, it may also be measured by
strength of character, and in this realm humans
may often fall short. Weakness of character, shown
through various character flaws, causes most of
the hardships in life. Literature such as
Shakespeare's Macbeth and Alison Walkers The Color
Purple contain three levels of characters: setting
characters, secondary characters and the main
character. Combined,...
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Christian Science Monitor 18 Th Century
2,101 words
Who is really voting, the people or the selected
few. The recent election involving Bush and Gore
has heated up a fifty year old debate. The debate
is about whether the Electoral College is still an
effective system considering the circumstances the
United States now faces compared to when it was
created by the founding fathers. The Electoral
College is an outdated system of election that
misrepresents the people of the United States
today. The college was created in a time where
communication w...
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Point Of View Kill The King
1,561 words
Hamlets Delay Everyone contains a tinge of Hamlet
in his feelings, wants, and worries, and proudly
so, for Hamlet is not like the other tragic heroes
of his period. He stands apart from other
Shakespeare's herein his today much discussed
innocence. Is this supposed tragic hero maybe an
ideal hero one without the tragic flaw, which has
been apart of the formula for the tragedy since
the Golden age of Greece? ; isa question that has
been the field for many literary critics battles.
The main, and, ...
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Kill His Father Scene 2 Line
686 words
Hamlet s Tragic Flaw It is better not to put off
till tomorrow what you can do today. Many
consequences can arise when one procrastinates. An
example of this is found in Shakespeare s Hamlet
through the depiction of the central character.
Although Hamlet is characterized as daring, brave,
loyal, and intelligent, he is overwhelmed by his
own conscience. The tragic hero is defined as one
whose downfall is brought about due to their
tragic flaw. Hamlet s inability to act on his
father s murder, his...
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Julius Caesar Tragic Hero
714 words
Julius Caesar: Tragic Hero In Julius Caesar
William Shakespeare illustrates Caesar as the
Tragic Hero. Greek philosopher Aristotle defines
the Tragic Hero as a man of high estate, that is,
a well-known, well intentioned man whose
misfortune results from some error in judgment or
some flaw in character (called the tragic flaw).
Based on Aristotle s criteria for a Tragic Hero,
Julius Caesar fits best as the Tragic Hero.
William Shakespeare shows this by viewing Julius
Caesar as a noble man of high...
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Thane Of Cawdor Act 1 Scene
725 words
Everyone has a flaw, but some are more serious
than others are. Some people have an addiction to
gambling, while others have a flaw in their memory
where they can t remember to take out the garbage.
However, in the more serious cases, these flaws
can come back to haunt a person, just as it did in
Shakespeare s Macbeth. This play was based around
the flaws a person s character can hold, and how
that can eventually lead to the demise of that
person. Macbeth is a very complex, interesting
play, whi...
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Medea Fatal Flaw Jason Her Selfishness Medea's
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The Curse of a Fatal Flaw Every highly tragic and
dramatic figure has a fatal flaw that leads to his
or her downfall. The character of Medea fits into
this category perfectly. Excessive passion is what
leads Medea to her destruction. Her love for
Jason, her selfishness, and her rage are all
factors of Medea's hamartia. First, the strongest
factor contributing to Medea's fatal flaw is her
love for Jason. During Jasons quest of searching
for the Golden Fleece and meets the Princess of
Colchis, Med...
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Tragic Hero Fatal Flaw
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A tragic figure, according to the classic
definition, is a person of noble birth whose
character is flawed by a weakness that causes his
downfall. Othello, while not a prince or a king,
is descended from royalty, and proves himself
worthy as a powerful soldier and a gentle, poetic
man. While some people feel that his fatal flaw is
his jealous nature, others feel Othello proves
that he is not prone to jealousy. I tend to favor
the notion that Othello's flaw is a jealous
passion that he cannot con...
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Reign In Hell Tragic Flaw
2,324 words
A tragedy can come in a variety of forms, but is
usually the end result of an imperfection that the
protagonist cannot overcome, a tragic flaw. In
John Milton's poem, Paradise Lost, Satan succumbs
to his own vaulting ambition to be equal in power
and glory to God. As a result of this perverse
ambition, his actions lead to the greatest tragedy
ever, the downfall of numerous angels and the race
of mankind. Satan, however, is not concerned with
the fact that he is responsible for the loss of
paradi...
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Mandate Of Heaven Kinds Of People
808 words
There are some smaller arguments, but the main
reason China was more successful in their empire
was because of the succession of emperors, Rome
usually had tremendous amounts of conflict when
the power would change hands, whereas China did
not. The Chinese had a certain excuse, for the
actions that were taken when an old dynasty was
overthrown. At a time of succession in Rome, there
was usually a civil war, or many deaths to finally
see who the new emperor was. Rome had one major
flaw when gradu...
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