He does not want to tarnish his only name, given to him in his life. Thus, because the protagonist divulges his tragic flaw of hubris, he adheres to Aristotle’s definition of a tragic hero. As Aristotle delineated in his work Aristotle’s Poetics, “A tragic hero is a protagonist with a fatal (also called tragic) flaw which eventually leads to his downfall.” John Proctor's excessive pride and dignity, otherwise known as hubris, causes his demise. John Proctor started off as a wealthy, landowning
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In the short play “Fences” by August Wilson the protagonist, Troy Maxson, is debated whether he is or isn’t a tragic hero. Ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle defined the concept of a tragic hero as a protagonist who introduced as happy, powerful, and privileged, but ends up dying or suffering because of his own actions. Some characteristics of a tragic hero are goodness, superiority, cases of hamartia, and faces death or suffering with honor. In the case of Troy Maxson, he is not a tragic hero but
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In “La Bête Humaine”, Jacques Lantier believes to be born with a fatal flaw. Due to his father’s alcoholism, Jacques considers his impulse to murder women a genetic transfer of his fatal flaw. Today we have a better understanding of genetics and the transfer of genes. This proved to be an obstacle for Jacques as well as for me. Only in the sense that I believe my father’s shortcomings could possibly be transferred to me. Just like Jacques, I struggle with the fear of my father’s fatal flaw becoming
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Greek philosopher Aristotle believed that every piece of literature must have a beginning, middle, and end. Aelius Donatus further developed this theory into the three-act structure common today, calling the sections protasis, epitasis, and catastrophe. Famous authors like Shakespeare expanded the original divisions into a five-act structure comprised of an exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and denouement. Although it was a four act play, Arthur Miller, author of The Crucible, utilized
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Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon has traits within its plot and characters that make it comparable to some of the classic tragedies. According to Aristotle in his Poetics, a tragic hero must have a reversal of fortune, hamartia which is a flaw in judgement or character as well as a realization of that flaw later on, and their character must be true to life. Pilate Dead, despite being a more minor character in the novel, is the tragic hero within the plot of Song of Solomon. Pilate experienced her
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Sports and Retirement A tragedy is a play dealing with tragic events resulting in an unhappy ending, especially one concerning the downfall of the main character. In the play Romeo and Juliet, the hero suffers a tragic death. The play is a tragedy because the death could have been avoided at several points throughout the play. As a result, a tragedy can result in one’s life being altered forever. The same principle can be applied to retirement. One could argue that after retiring, one’s life is altered
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In this proposal I plan to focus on the Greek tragedy Antigone by Sophocles. The last of the three Theban plays written in or before 441 BC. I will focus in on tragic hero’s. A tragic flaw is an error or defect in the tragic hero that leads to his downfall, such as greed, pride, or ambition. This flaw may be a result of bad character, bad judgment, an inherited weakness, or any other defect of character. Examples of a tragic hero are Antigone four main characters Antigone, Ismene, Creon, and Haemon
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Oedipus is a tragic hero in many different ways as he plays many different roles as a dad, husband and some others, but what he does is not right and he gets punished for it. Oedipus nobility helped people understand what to do threw the hard times and get threw with his word of speech . He is also the father of a few children he has and also a husband too. that he faces after becoming blind. Oedipus is a very good man and not a good man at the same time , he did a lot of really really good things
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The Tragedy of Julius Caesar tells of the conspiracy and the murder of one the most prominent figures in Roman history, Julius Caesar. The play written by William Shakespeare, shows the relationships between the conspiracy members, more specifically Marcus Brutus. He comes from noble ancestry and is a politician in the Roman capital. One of Shakespeare’s most used ideas in his plays is the idea of a tragic hero. A tragic hero is a character usually of noble birth and has a tragic flaw. Shakespeare
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When we hear the words tragedies and comedies we can reference them to death and jokes; however, there is more to these concepts than can come to one’s mind especially in drama. In tragedies there is often the downfall of a tragic hero whereas in comedies the unexpected rise of the comic protagonist is to be laughed at due to the wit and humor used. Tragedies end in catastrophe as seen in the death of Romeo and Juliet unlike in comedies where the conflicts are to be made fun of, for example in Sure
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