Tragic Hero

In addition, according to Aristotle’s Poetics, a tragic hero expresses exaggerated pride which narrows the hero’s perception of the reality and leads to his downfall. Besides the heroic qualities that distinguish Oedipus and Antigone from everyone else, they also possess hubris and flaws that every tragic hero contains. Both Oedipus and Antigone have pride for their actions and they do not miss a chance to point it out. For instance, Oedipus is proud of earning his kingly position due to his…

certain flaws, but a character that is usually rooted for, this being the hero archetype that has been altered and changed in different ways fitting for each story. In the two pieces Death of a Salesman , and Oedipus The King both from different eras and parts of the world yet each had a commonality to the story’s main hero, connected with similar flaws and end results. Death and pain is a common idea among each piece being each hero goes through their own trials and will inevitably find…

calls her a “devil” (Othello 4.1.171-232). Othello believes he is in the right to murder his wife, as this will prevent her from hurting others as she hurt him. It is when Lodovico tells Iago to “look at the tragic loading” that the audience remembers that Othello is not a villain. His tragic downfall is his own doing, but it would have never happened if Iago did not seek to ruin to his…

The Tragic Ending of Faust: An Interpretation of Faust II, Act V, Lines 11678-11829 In Part II, Act V, line 11678-11829 of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s tragic play Faust, Faust’s soul is rescued by angels. There have been many scholars that have interpreted this scene as representing the redemption of the protagonist after a life of evil and destruction (Van der Laan, 67). That view has now largely been rejected. An alternative reading of this scene would be to deny Faust any identity at all,…

act on them are good- I shall follow them.” (720-722) Haemon was trying to contrast with his father Creon. When Creon can not be contrasted with because, he is stubborn, disrespectful, and has a short temper. Which why these showed Creon as the tragic hero because he realized he was wrong and Antigone did not. He also lost all his family like Antigone but he realized it was his fault. Haemon tired to show his father he was wrong about his decision about Antigone. “I could not find your words…

Black rhinos, native to eastern and southern Africa, fight each other constantly and have the highest rate of death among mammals in fights within the same species. Fifty percent of males and thirty percent of females die from these intra-species brawls. William Shakespeare, highly commended English poet, playwright, actor, and fifth most influential person of the millennium wrote a total of 37 plays during his lifetime. Only one these plays contain the word ‘rhinoceros’. Macbeth, arguably the…

Chinua Achebe's “Things Fall Apart” is a historical fiction novel that is set in the early 1900’s. This novel is about the tragic downfall of the main character Okonkwo, a well respected leader within his clan in Umuofia, who is also a tragic hero because of several flaws. Okonkwo’s most noticeable flaw is that he fears weakness and failure. Okonkwo’s fatal flaw is his fear of weakness and failure. This fear was the result of the weakness and failure of his father, Unoka. He saw how nobody…

la Afshar-Tavana English 452 Dr. Mogk 18 October 2016 Shakespeare’s Selfish and Loyal Men In the Shakespeare tragic play Macbeth, the characters illustrate the importance of having power. Through the eyes of Macduff and Macbeth, there are great qualities that are shown through them. They both have a drive for power and bravery but want to make sure that it does not go unnoticed. Without control, characters Macduff and Macbeth are not able to take over their land or fight for what they want. Even…

Two main characters share similar traits from respective pieces of literature, one is a quasi-ruler of an African hamlet and the other is a soldier fighting deadly robots. In Arrow of God by Chinua Achebe, Ezeulu is the chief priest of multiple villages in Africa that is slowly being colonized by the British in the early Twentieth Century. Second Variety by Phillip K. Dick is a short science fiction story set in an apocalyptic future about a military officer named Major Joseph Hendricks, who…

respected by those around him. He is described by others as being “noble,” “brave,” and “valiant.” Since he is in a high rank position and because of how others respect him, he possesses the high stature commonly given to the tragic hero in order to make his fall seem more tragic. Although he possesses these qualities, he is also very naive and gullible. He is tricked by Iago which leads him into an over powering…