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    In Chinua Achebe’s postcolonial story of Things Fall Apart, Achebe portrays the main character, Okonkwo, as an angry man who is unable to show compassion which becomes his hamartia. This hamartia which impacts Okonkwo throughout the novel, eventually leads to Okonkwo’s own tragic demise. The death of Okonkwo was from his own fatal flaw, as a tragic hero. Not through the cultural displacement that may have affected the people around him. Aristotle describes a tragic hero as someone who: holds…

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    The story “The Interlopers” written by Saki is also connected with Nietzsche’s philosophy on Apollo and Dionysus, which are central themes within his first major work, The Birth of Tragedy. I am going to argue that the Apollonian and Dionysian philosophy can describe not only humans and that someone can go from Dionysus to Apollo with just a few words. I am going to argue this despite the fact that in general this philosophy is applied on human beings, yet relating it with “The Interlopers”.…

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    The reminiscing downfall of the insecure salesman and his misguided perception of success leads him to fail within the success driven environment that he is to be surrounded in. Within the play of “ death of a salesman” written by Arthur Miller the author asserts the main character Willy Loman main flaw being insecurity demonstrated in his boastful behavior claiming he is rather a “vital” necessity in New England. As well as he self praises himself in boasting that he indeed has expanded the…

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    downfall. After the punishment of his own action, he comes to a new sense of awareness. Usually this tragedy leaves traces on the audience – the audience ‘catharsis’. Macbeth exhibits the features of being a ‘Tragic Hero’ through the use of literary devices; mainly allusion, lexical field, and foreshadowing, in…

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    The Paradox In Macbeth

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    The famous playwright named William Shakespeare if known for tragedies and comedies to reveal life in a different point of view. He has written many famous plays like, Hamlet, a Mid-Summer Nights Dream and the Tragedy of Macbeth. A tragedy is a staid play that has motivation that leads to death. A comedy is a less tragic play that involves less gruesome death and a lighter ending. One of his most famous tragedies was the “Tragedy of Macbeth”. In the tragedy of Macbeth the playwright, William…

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    The Misfortune of Poor Decisions Throughout life every person will encounter and experience the intimidating and unmotivating concept of making a poor decision. A profound piece of literature that addresses the topic of poor decision is the classic tale of Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare. The story is a tragedy and follows the twists and turns of Romeo and Juliet’s forbidden love that eventually leads to their deaths. Both participants in the relationship partake in risky actions that could…

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    Introduction A tragic hero refers to an individual of noble birth who is either heroic or has heroic qualities. It is believed supernatural forces or gods determine a person’s fate and the tragic hero is destined to experience great suffering or destruction. Despite the fate that tragic heroes have been assigned to, they struggle against it and it is this conflict that the audience admires. Adade-Yeboah, Kwaku, and Adwoah (p. 12) state that Aristotle defined a tragic hero as a man who is neither…

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    Thomas Hardy’s “The Convergence of the Twain” is a cautionary tale against Man’s attempt to transgress his myopia. Mirroring the Greek traditions of architecture and tragedy, Hardy impassively elevates the catastrophic accident to an cosmic ‘intelligent design’ - an orchestrated ‘convergence of the twain.’ Hardy presents this tragedy of human “vanity” through a detached, almost reportorial tone, developed from an omniscient point of view. Particularly, he uses sophisticated diction and wordplay…

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    This Is Our World Analysis

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    Plot and Character’s Effect on the Experience of Tragic Art The experience of tragic art depends on the plot setup, the type of tragedy, and how the plot appeals to the audience. Distinct rules in Aristotle’s passage stated the arrangement of a plot. A tragedy must contain a “prologue, episode, exode, and a choral portion…” (Aristotle, 2324) according to Aristotle. The plot should have structure, nevertheless it should also flow naturally and freely. If too much planning occurs in the plot,…

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    "There is a foolish corner in the brain of the wisest man." ~Aristotle Let's face it. We have all said things that were dumb, foolish, and uninspiring. Surprisingly, the reason why so many good leaders say such foolish things is because they often do not recognize them as foolish or unwise. Also, they came up in a culture where the same things were said to them and, just like all of us, they learned how to lead from watching the actions and behaviors of other successful leaders. In this…

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