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    a tragedy, a tragic hero is a character who is doomed from the beginning, suffers, has tragic flaws, or all of the above. Othello, in the play Othello by Shakespeare, is a tragic hero due to his tragic flaws. His tragic flaws are his insecurity, his gullibility, and his misplacement of trust. The character of Iago uses Othello’s tragic flaws against him through misleading advice and lies. Othello fits the definition of a tragic hero. He is doomed, in a tragedy, suffers, and has tragic flaws. Although

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    Antigone vs Creon What is the difference between a tragic hero from an antagonist? In the story “Antigone”, written by famous play writer Sophocles, a young girl named Antigone fights a tragic battle in trying to prepare a proper funeral for her dead brother Polyneices. On the other hand Creon the King of Thebes, believes that Polyneices should be left unburied. The two conflicting characters Creon and Antigone differ based on their words, actions and ideas. Creon’s downfall slowly leads to more

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    A tragic hero is a main character in a tragedy that makes a bad decision and ends up costing them their life. Discuss whether Gatsby fits the definition of a tragic hero. In Fitzgerald's famous novel The Great Gatsby Gatsby is the main character and through the novel Fitzgerald goes through Gatsby’s life living in the east egg. The novel is a tragedy that is packed with action, parties, romance, love, affairs, and death. Like all good novels The Great Gatsby was a book of its time. Based in

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    Brutus. His love for his country simply outgrew the love he felt for Caesar. Brutus decided to join the conspiracy and their quest to take Caesar’s life. After they completed this bloodthirsty quest, tension rose in Rome. Mark Antony wanted revenge on the conspirators for killing his dearest friend and so he set out to do just that. Brutus and Cassius fled Rome to eventually return to Philippi where a battle between armies would take place. At the town of Philippi, lives were lost and tragic flaws took

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    Per: 1 Julius Caesar The Tragic Hero Essay A Greek philosopher named Aristotle once said that "A man doesn't become a hero until he can see the root of his own downfall." According to Aristotle, a character becomes a tragic hero when he takes part of being a member of the noble family and makes judgement errors that causes his own downfall or destruction. The characteristics of a tragic hero comprise of tragic flaws, hubris, anagnorisis and catharsis. An example of a tragic hero is revealed in the

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    Winston Tragic Hero

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    role in George Orwell’s novel, 1984, is not solely that of our protagonist, but of a tragic hero as well. Winton’s story is not unusual, but that of a tragic hero. Not only does Winston possess the typical path of a tragic hero, but he possesses a tragic flaw as well. 1984 shows the rise and fall of an ordinary man named Winston in a the dystopian and totalitarian future of Oceania. The overall path of a tragic hero is simple: one starts at the middle, rises to the top, and falls completely by

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    Caesar Tragic Hero

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    and defining a tragedy and a tragic hero. He defines a tragedy as a dramatic piece of work that evokes the feelings of pity and fear within humans. Aristotle also states the tragic hero traits such as hamartia, peripeteia, anagnorsis, and catharsis, which all lead to the downfall of the character at the end of the story. In the 1500s, William Shakespeare wrote a plethora of different plays, both comedy and tragedy, for society. With his tragedies, he conveys the tragic hero of his plays using many

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    experience consequences as result of their actions throughout their stories. Othello is more of the tragic hero when comparing the two characters Othello and Macbeth because Othello shows all the major traits for the protagonist whereas Macbeth does not show as many. Within any tragedy there is a reversal of fortune for the protagonist. This can be seen in both Macbeth and Othello. The tragic hero must be one who is admired but possesses a character flaw. Also this character should be capable

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    Is Eddie a Tragic hero for our times? A tragic hero, referring to the real definition, is “a literary character who makes an error of judgment or has a fatal flaw that, combined with fate and external forces, brings on a tragedy.” (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/tragic+hero) The play, A View from the Bridge written by Arthur Miller defines the character Eddie, the protagonist, as occupying most of the qualities for a tragic hero. Eddie in A View from the Bridge came from a noble family

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    “Tragic heroes are so much the highest points in their human landscape that they seem the inevitable conductors of the power about them...great trees more likely to be struck by lightning than a clump of grass. Conductors may of course be instruments as well as victims of the divine lightning.” Tragic heroes are characters of notoriety; held in high regard but are struck with misfortune through their own error. The most noble of men can succumb to their own flaws until driven to the brink of insanity

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