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The True Tragic Hero In Sophocles Antigone
475 wordsAntigone, is the drama written by Sophocles. There is still a great debate on who is the true tragic hero in Sophocles' Antigone, Creon or Antigone. Many people believes that it must be Antigone, herself. This is because Antigone is an outstanding example of someone who did what she thought was right, while she was among fools, many hardships, and people who were discouragingly un courageous. When the king Creon ordered that the body of Polyneices, Antigone's brother, be left to rot unburied bec...
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Doctor Faustus The Aristotelian Hero
1,169 wordsHeroes envelop the idea of a noble person who fights for the rights of the little people. He or she commits a deed that goes above and beyond the call. This type of hero exists in the modern thought, but there also exists another hero, an Aristotelian Hero. This tragic hero starts out in the nobility of society, yet he just like any other man. This hero has but one fault and that fault, hamartia, is a fatal error or flaw that in the end causes the downfall of the hero. This downfall leads to a c...
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High Social Status Marry His Mother
1,943 wordsOver 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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Thane Of Glamis Thane Of Cawdor
1,030 wordsMacbeth: 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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High Social Status Married His Mother
4,009 wordsOver Tragedy Essay TRAGEDY ESSAY 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 aud...
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Miller Tragic Figure
1,707 wordsDavid Siren 4 / 3 / 00 Bastien Dysart, The Common Tragic Figure? Peter Shaffer? s play? Equus? reads like a true tragedy blending religion and adolescence while questioning society? s? civilized norms? . Although Alan Strang seemingly suffers the most throughout the story, the true tragic figure in the play is Dysart, Alan? s psychiatrist. Dysart is forced to question everything that he previously accepted and his whole life is thrown out the window upon meeting Alan. Both Arthur Miller? s defin...
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Romeo And Juliet Tragic Hero
769 wordsShakespeare Tragedy and Fate Essay In the play Romeo and Juliet, people have two views on what caused the downfall of the characters Romeo and Juliet. The first view, that a serious character flaw caused both Romeo and Juliet to end up dead seems to make sense. The other opinion, that fate caused the collapse and death of Romeo and Juliet doesnt seem as likely. This essay will discuss whether one determines their own fate or some higher force decides our fate for us. Henry Myers wrote an essay o...
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Tragic Hero Fatal Flaw
1,330 wordsA 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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