Tragic Hero

Who’s the True Tragic Heroine? Why do people do the wrong thing, knowing that it is wrong? Then, they feel bad about it and regret doing it. Why not just do the right thing the first time? These are questions that are faced by King Creon in the tragedy, Antigone. Though the tragic drama Antigone was written in the 6th Century B.C, this problem is still faced today (Willocks). King Creon deals with this problem after making the wrong decision to send Antigone to the cave to die for attempting to…

Troy Maxson: Good, Bad or Tragic Hero? In August Wilson’s play Fences the protagonist, Troy Maxson, is widely considered to be one of the greatest characters of the American stage (Shmoop Editorial Team). He is a very complex man and leaves one wondering is he good, bad or simply a tragic hero? This is not an easy question to answer on the surface, but, reading and analyzing the play points toward the latter. Troy is quite simply bad at being good. “Troy has a clear-cut case of hamartia. This…

Marcus Brutus is generally portrayed as a tragic hero, but that can be profoundly questionable. It is critical to identify who a character is before labeling them with any title. All that is acknowledged in relation to Brutus has he shared a role of the conspiracy that assassinated Julius Caesar, a close friend of his. Julius Caesar, a play, was written by William Shakespeare, that tells of a rendition of the story of Julius Caesar's assassination. Brutus claimed that Shakespeare was ambitious,…

In every Greek tragedy there is a tragic hero. In Sophocles play Antigone the tragic hero is Antigone 's uncle, king Creon because he meets the criteria set by Aristotle 's definition of a Greek tragedy. Antigone is the second play in a series of three plays called The Theban Plays. Antigone 's entire family has been plagued with a curse that has killed her parents. Her two brothers have perished as well after a large battle over the thrown. All she has left is her uncle and her dear sister…

The Tragic Hero in Julius Caesar The drama Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare is a tragedy. A tragedy is a drama that ends in the downfall of the main character. In Julius Caesar, Brutus, who is an honorable figure in ancient Rome, the setting of the play, betrays and kills his friend Caesar for the good of Rome. This event leads people to seek revenge and eventually ends with brutus’s death. I believe that Brutus is the tragic hero in Julius Caesar because his character follows the…

Proctor in his drama, The Crucible, because he believed that the time period during Mccarthyism lacked true heroes. Although Proctor is not the typical hero that usually comes into mind according to the common definition, Miller portrays him as a tragic hero, one whose biggest flaw is his own honesty. Some may disagree that Proctor was indeed a true hero, due to the fact that he committed adultery. Although this is true, ironically, this wasn’t even the reason that we was executed. He was…

John Proctor was a man of faith, honor, and integrity. He was a man that hated hypocrites and died as a tragic hero should. The actions he displayed during the play that led to this conclusion were: he decided to die alongside his friends instead of live as a liar, and he decided to die instead of letting his name become trash. A tragic hero is a character who makes a bad decision that inevitably leads to his or her death. John Proctor is an example of such a character because he worked so…

The definition of a tragic hero is “a literary character who makes a judgment error that inevitably leads to his/her own destruction” (www.bisd303.org). Some characteristics Aristotle says in order to be a tragic hero the character must be noble in nature, have a tragic flaw, have excessive pride, and must discover his fate by his own actions. Okonkwo, the main character in Things Fall Apart, qualifies for the role of tragic hero by being someone to look up to as a successful and respected…

definition of a tragic hero, a literary character who makes a judgement error that inevitably results in their destruction, was conceived by Aristotle. Aristotle's tragic hero must experience a flaw in judgement (hamartia), a reversal of fortune (peripeteia), and a realization that they caused their lot (anagnorisis); they ultimately receive a fate much harsher than deserved due to their hubris. John Proctor, the protagonist of Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible is this American tragedy’s tragic…

Tragic Hero of Julius Caesar Life is full of decisions and choices that are difficult to make. Tragic heroes are people that makes decisions that cost them everything and lead to their own turmoil. In the Tragedy of Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare characters are forced to make decisions that can be life or death. Some characters choose wrong and some don’t get the chance to make a decision. The character of Marcus Brutus, a well respected senator and a patriot of Rome, loses everything he…