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    French ambassador for many years. Thomas Jefferson was a wise man that was able to be the third president of the United States. Also he played a major role in helping the U.S. get their freedom. People saw Thomas Jefferson as many things a coward‚ a hero‚ and as a horrible person. When British soldiers invaded Virginia‚ Jefferson’s colleagues in Richmond fled to Charlottesville and set up a temporary base. While he gathered his family at his mansion at Monticello. The press later called him a coward

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    The character of John Procter in Arthur Miller’s The Crucible was a great example of a truly tragic hero. He measured up to every one of Aristotle’s requirements. He was not a perfect person because he had many faults and was not completely good or bad. Best of all‚ he knew that he was not perfect and he recognized and regretted the errors that he made throughout his life. Then‚ after the reader stays with Procter while he confessed all of his horrible sins for the whole town to hear‚ he had

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    Coriolanus: A Tragic Hero that Stands Alone The story of Coriolanus is a very unique Tragedy‚ for instance unlike other Shakespeare tragidies where the plays are littered with deaths; in Coriolanus‚ Coriolanus is the only character to die. This is not the only reason‚ I believe‚ that separates Coriolanus from all of Shakespeare’s other tragidies: Coriolanus is the most unique tragic hero‚ when compared to all the other tragic heroes Shakespeare has written about. Unlike most of Shakespeare’s tragic heroes

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    the actions they perform are noble actions. • In Death of a Salesman‚ Willy Loman is the proclaimed “hero” of the story‚ a common salesman‚ whose life is slowly unravelling due to his failure at the American dream of commercial success. • Willy Loman is a character who emulates certain features of being a hero‚ but cannot completely fit the archetype. Main Point: The tragic hero is a character of noble stature and has greatness. If the hero’s fall is to arouse in us the emotions of

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    A tragic hero is a literary character who makes a judgement error that inevitably leads to his or her own destruction. Characteristics of a tragic hero are typically the character has an internal struggle‚ which he or she may display as a weakness or a pernicious trait like hubris‚ and this trait brings about his or her own destruction. Also‚ the tragic hero is normally a person of nobility‚ or a great significance‚ whose destruction will arouse the audience in pity or fear. In The Tragedy of Julius

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    Aristotle defines a tragic hero as “having high estate‚ nobility of soul‚ ability to have free will‚ having tragic flaw‚ also somebody we are able to empathize with‚ a person who suffers from reversal of fortune‚ achieving enlightenment‚ accepting responsibility for his/her fall and being able to die bravely.” I am going to use Aristotle’s definition of a tragic hero to support evidence to the character Antigone‚ in the play Antigone. To me‚ the tragic hero in the play is Antigone. Antigone‚ who

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    Oskar Schindler was born 28th of April 1908‚ Oskar Schindler is a over all hero‚ he continually risked his life while trying to safe others at all cost‚ he made very courageous decisions without any second guessing about how much trouble he would be put in if he was caught doing this action‚ with Oskar being in the prior experiences also made his operation all the more ricky. With all Oskar went through he still reminds unknown to many people today. As Oskar Schindler grew up he worked in several

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    accomplished many things as a pilot that no women had ever accomplished before. Though her love for flying finally killed her in a mysterious plane accident‚ her memories and accomplishments still live on with us today. Amelia Earhart is considered a hero because she withstood many challenges. In a time where women were considered to be less successful than men‚ Amelia Earhart continued to reach for her

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    describe characters through out literature. The classic mythological hero may be described as having the tragic Greek heroic personality. The tragic Greek heroic personality contains characteristics such as excellence (arête)‚ pride (hubris)‚ blind recklessness (ate)‚ and disastrous retribution (nemesis). Though most mythological heroes contain these qualities‚ Sophocles developed his own heroic personality. The sophoclean tragic hero is "one whose rigid and courageous loyalty to particular principles

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    tragedy is a play where fate runs it’s ‘bloody course’‚ which will lead to the tragic hero’s downfall. A tragic hero is usually a character of noble stature. Just like all people‚ tragic heroes aren’t perfect but what separates them from the others is that they have a hamartia‚ a tragic flaw. This flaw will be the cause of the downfall for the tragic hero. Eddie Carbone is somewhat a tragic hero. He doesn’t fit as a tragic hero because in the play‚ he is a normal longshoreman‚ which is fairly ordinary

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