Poetic devices

Aristotle considered a tragic hero as a good man of high status who displays a tragic flaw and experiences a dramatic reversal along with an intense moment of recognition. In the play The Tragedy of Othello: The Moor of Venice written by William Shakespeare the main character, Othello, is portrayed as a tragic hero. Throughout the play he displays each characteristic of Aristotle’s definition of a tragic hero. Othello was often considered as a good man of high status in the play. Many people…

Many Greek plays have a tragic hero, and Sophocles's Antigone is no exception. Aristotle believes a tragic hero is a man that is not too good but also not too bad, is lifelike, is appropriate, is consistent, and who “does not fall into misfortune through vice or depravity, but falls because of some mistake” (On Tragic Character, 1145). Creon, the new king of Thebes, is the tragic hero in Antigone because he fulfills the four main characteristics of a tragic character, and he makes a fatal…

Research Paper- Tragic character flaws in Oedipus the King and Othello, the Moor of Venice Oedipus the King and Othello, the Moor of Venice are both plays that explore character flaws that every common person possesses. Both poems tell stories about noble men (Oedipus and Othello respectively) who end up succumbing to their tragic character flaws. A tragic character flaw is accurately described in the Journal article “The Tragic Flaw: is it a Tragic error?” when it says: “ Distinct from this,…

A tragic hero in “The Crucible” written by Arthur Miller was a middle aged man named John Proctor. Through out the entire story John showed all the qualifications of being a tragic hero. The qualities are: he or she must be well respected, has a tragic flaw that causes their downfall, be able to redeem their self and lastly the person dies. In the next few paragraphs all the obstacles John faces to qualify as a tragic hero will be listed and briefly discussed. As the story goes about John…

Hamlet is one of the most controversial tragic heroes in Shakespearean literature. A tragic hero can be defined as an individual who has heroic qualities but his fated to doom due to a character flaw but still manages to win over our admiration. Hamlet’s character flaw is his inability to distinguish between his expectations and reality. He has a deep hatred/disrespect towards woman and treats them unjustly but that does not rob him of his tragic hero status. Hamlet is afraid of women due to…

Tragedy has become a large part of English literature. Tragedy started early dating back to the ancient Greeks. It is a piece that contains strong, powerful, brave, noble characters who challenges barrier and disadvantages. This alone is an embodiment of a tragic story. A person writes tragedies because it allows readers to experience their emotions, and experience they never felt before actually happening to them. The text gives an outlook and creates an image in your head. It is an emotional…

The Deadly Flaws of The Odyssey Is humanity really doomed to repeatedly suffer from its genuine flaws? Yes, beyond any doubt, humans are flawed whether it be to fall prey to lust or be overtaken by greed; However, that is what makes one human, and one’s weaknesses are a staple to one’s life. In Homer’s The Odyssey, he perfectly composes perils and interlaces many flaws that change the course and lives of the characters and their journeys, yet they are still human from the start to the end. This…

Was Creon a tragic hero, or just a tragic mess?there are many people who are divided by this question, trying to discern if he really is the tragic hero or not. In my opinion? Yes, he is. A “tragic hero” is defined as “a literary character who makes a judgement error that inevitably leads to his/her own destruction.” There are 6 traits to a tragic hero, and Creon displays all 6, starting with him being a person of high estate. Creon was made King of Thebes after the deaths of Eteocles and…

In “The Sophoclean Hero and Aristotle,” Aristotle states that the tragic hero is always subjected to “hamartia” or a tragic flaws. According to Aristotle in the Sophoclean Hero and Aristotle's, “...Hamartia... ‘to miss the mark" (as in archery), ‘to fail in one's purpose’, ‘to make a mistake’...”and Pentheus and Oedipus mistake is that they are too proud of themselves. In Oedipus Rex By Sophocles and The Bacchae by Euripides, Oedipus and and Pentheus respectively have excessive pride…

Aristotle had many unique ideas that he believed in. He also was known for his perceptions on particular topics. One of the topics is tragic hero. Aristotle had his own definition for a tragic hero. According to Aristotle, a tragic hero must be essentially good as a person. The hero must have dignity and personal quality in order to qualify as a tragic figure and then must suffer a downfall through no fault of his own. This relates to the play Fences, and the character, Troy Maxson. Troy is…