Macbeth Tragic Hero Essay

cause people to do the wrong thing. Similarly, in the eighth century epic poem, The Odyssey, the author Homer demonstrates the traits of cunning, the need for glory, articulate dialect, and boastfulness. positive and negative traits lie within the epic hero, Odysseus. Cunning people can have a great advantage. Odysseus shows his cunning abilities in many ways. During the scene of the cyclops Polyphemus, Odysseus portrays cunning in many ways. Perhaps the first thing Odysseus does involves…

In his short story, “The Lie”, Kurt Vonnegut argues that when people have a sense of entitlement they abuse their power to get their way. When Dr. and Mrs. Remenzel find that Eli had not been accepted into Whitehill they have two very different agendas. Mrs. Remenzel wants to find Eli and comfort him, where as Doctor Remenzel wants to get Eli admitted; “‘There’s a majority of the Board of Overseers in this room at this very moment. Everyone of them is a close friend of mine, or a close friend of…

In the play, “Fences”, by August Wilson, Troy is the protagonist. By many Troy can be seen as a tragic hero for his bravery to stand up for his black rights. As bad as the things Troy might do, still readers enjoy him as a character. This is because the author's technique to display sympathy for Troy avoids readers seeing him as a abusive father and an unfaithful husband. August Wilson makes us sympathize with Troy by talking about his past life when he was a child, How he personified death and…

A tragedy play is one that deals with tragic events that all lead to an unhappy ending, especially concerning the downfall of a main character. Usually plays that come from different time periods and setting lead to different contexts. Furthermore, because the different contexts this often leads to differing tragedies. The two plays that follow this concept is “Oedipus the King” by Sophocles and “Death of a Salesman” by Arthur Miller. When comparing these two plays, it easy to see that the…

When we look at the character of Eumaeus from The Odyssey we see a simple man who shows great loyalty and has a servant's heart. Without Eumaeus, Odysseus would have had much trouble trying gain back his old ways of life. Eumaeus shows great loyalty in two main ways. He takes care of Odysseus possessions, and he fights with Odysseus even though it could mean his death. When we look at how Eumaeus was a servant, there are two things that stand out. The way that he takes care of the swine as if…

A man transcends those things that compose him, greater than the sum of his parts; but, suppose a man builds himself off of a foundation of lies, to himself and to others. Mr. Duffy of “A Painful Case” and Gabriel of “The Dead” serve as chief examples of this deception by living lives designed to impress upon others a view of a certain kind of man: one versed in matters of the mind and of society. They both engage with women betrothed, by oath or soul, to others, they dislike Dublin and her…

Critical Theory is a way of explaining ideas like art, literature, and culture, and these lenses allow critics to focus on certain aspects of a work within the school of theory. For example, critics can explain their views on marginalized and privilege and then explain how these terms are related to them. For instance, I am marginalized because I am female, however, I am privileged because I am white and come from a well off family. The idea of Critical Theory can be applied to Mary Shelley’s,…

How does Golding make this a pivotal moment in the novel and is it effective? Golding uses various techniques throughout this passage to show it as an effective pivotal moment in the novel. He does this throughout the semantic field of the passage, however he best does this when he represents Jack as a different person and animalistic, separated from society and the rest of the group. This is effective because it shows the start of the decline in the groups sanity and link to home, hinting that…

oss Misrepresenting reality can have serious consequences ‘Reality is defined as the state of things as they exist, opposed to the idealistic or notional idea of them’ and is that which remains unchanged through eternity like no other. The idea of indulging oneself in a world of unreal, euphoric fantasies is often an excuse to escape the harsh, daunting nature of reality in this world. More often than not, we skew our lenses and limit our perceptions to that which is beautiful and enthralling…

People are inherently vain and have the desire to do great things in order to preserve their memory. However, many people take this self preservation too far and end up with a superiority complex and easily upset when the smallest thing goes wrong. Their own naiviety leads them to a depression that cannot be broken unless they prove themselves in another way. In Belinda by Maria Edgeworth, Clarence Hervey has a raging superiority complex that leads him to a self created sadness in the end.…