Poetics

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…

A tragic hero is a literary character who makes a judgment error that inevitably leads to his/her own destruction(http://www.bisd303.org/) Macbeth and Creon are two different characters from two different plays, both are considered to be tragic heroes. Macbeth is a character from the play Macbeth by William Shakespeare where a thane and general is driven by ambition kills and destroys people to obtain what he wants and wont stop until he is king. and Creon a character in the play by Antigone by…

Aristotle was a greek philosopher who proposed a set of characteristics or traits which are to be used as criteria when evaluating characters and their status as tragic heroes. Put in a condensed manner, they are as follows: a tragic hero must have noble stature, be a victim of hamartia, be responsible for his own downfall, be admirable and pitiable, gain wisdom and repent before death, and conjure a cathartic release of emotions from the reader. These traits will be used to evaluate, by form of…

In a tragedy that results in death, one may think that many are at fault, however, in this story, one person stands out above all. There have been many aspects of this play that have been affected by the choices made by the characters. However, one person has made choices that affected the overall main events in this play. In William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, Friar Lawrence is most responsible, the Friar's actions have formed the unfortunate outcome of this tragedy. The result of this…

The definition of a tragedy is a play dealing with tragic events and an unhappy ending. Julius Caesar is a tragedy written by Shakespeare. This play is about the history assassination of Julius Caesar and how it lead to the downfall of the Roman Empire. Shortly after the assassination of Caesar, Brutus and Antony separately make a public announcement to the Roman citizens. Brutus first explains to the public why Caesar had to be killed and the citizens agree with him, but then Antony makes a…