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    1. Do you agree with Arthur Miller’s assertion in Tragedy and the Common Man that Willy Loman is indeed a tragic hero? Why or why not? According to Miller‚ a tragic hero is someone who dies for personal dignity. Willy does indeed die for his dignity. “Those who act against the scheme of things that degrades them.”(Miller. Tragedy of the Common Man) Willy’s act of committing suicide‚ fits in that category. In act 2‚ Willy reveals his desires to win back Biff’s respect by committing suicide. In one

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    three basic parts: values‚ characters‚ and a conclusion. A value is what will determine the fate of the tragic character in the play‚ usually the value is represented by a supernatural power. While the character has to display certain characteristics like nobility either by birth or action‚ it is most noted for the characters downfall. The downfall occurs either by limitation of knowledge or by a tragic flaw within

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    Eddie Carbone? Target: use precise quotations and make use of redrafting time. Eddie Carbone is a complicated character‚ some say he is a villain due to the actions that he takes‚ others sympathise with him‚ saying that he is a victim. You can view him in different lights‚ although he acts‚ some may say‚ in a villainous manner‚ he is a victim of his feelings‚ confused and unsure of the right thing to do. Eddie has very strong feelings that he finds very difficult to cope with‚ this leads the

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    Someone can go from having everything to nothing‚ in a blink of an eye. Having everything that was needed and desired to having nothing can really change the way people act and function. In this world there are two types of people‚ people that have to work for their necessities and people that just get handed what they want. But what happens when it all gets taken away from one mistake? A tragic hero is a great or virtuous character in a dramatic tragedy that is destined for downfall. In the play

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    Hale as a Tragic Figure  Base of Paper     ● Tragic Hero ideas 1 and 2 merged    ○ Tragic Hero’s have noble stature  ■ Hale is from the church  ■ Has a strong educational background   ■ Was called in for an important job  ● Like Oedipus and the Sphinx   ○ Tragic Hero’s are not perfect  ■ He is quite naive‚ and easily manipulated   ● Leads him to believe obviously false evidence   ○ Causes death of innocent people  ● Overly confident in his knowledge of witchcraft  ○ obscures the truth to him‚ up until it is too late 

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    Through Aristotle’s definition of a tragic hero‚ it can be inferred that Oedipus is a tragic hero because of three main reasons: he discove his fate by his own actions‚ he falls from great esteem and his story arises fear and empathy. With all these attributes‚ Oedipus directly fits Aristotle’s definition. Oedipus discovers his fate not by things happening to him but instead by his own actions. Oedipus would have probably never learned that he was Laois’s murderer if he had not called on Teresias

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    Shylock is a monster of cruelty‚ miser‚ greedy‚ suspicious ‚cunning ‚ bloodthirsty ‚revengeful‚ mean ‚a bad father and a bad master. But it is the circumstances that made him like this. Shylock is a tragic figure‚ trapped by prejudice and driven to revenge by the treatment he receives He is not cruel by nature. He is human in inner-self as the Christians are. He is therefore the most injured man‚ insulted‚ abused and disgraced by the Christians and even by his own daughter‚ His cruelty is made

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    be its’ ‘tragic hero’. The salesman grows increasingly disillusioned throughout the course of the play to the point where he eventually takes his own life. Willy’s life is a never-ending dream where he tries to persuade himself and others that he and his sons are successful‚ but‚ in the end Willy is unable to live up to his own expectations. Willy is little more than a failure and a crazed lunatic living in the past. Whether or not Willy Loman embodies Aristotle’s model of a tragic hero is a matter

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    points in a person’s life. Some situations involve great outcomes while others are tragic. It is very common to have converses occur as seemingly good results turn into a person’s worst nightmare. Stephen Kumalo‚ the main character in Alan Paton’s Cry‚ the Beloved Country‚ is a tragic hero because of the reversal in Stephen’s fortunes in his search for his son‚ Absalom. Kumalo passes from happiness to misery from the point when he finds Gertrude to Absalom’s hanging. He also has hamartia‚ demonstrated

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    permitted the simple task of allowing both brothers to have proper burials? Creon exhibits several characteristics of a tragic hero in the Greek tragedy “Antigone”. This self-destructive character expresses hubris – his tragic flaw‚ anagnoris (recognition)‚ and peripety (reversal of luck) leading him to the tragedy that is his life by the end of the play. The most common tragic flaw illustrated in Greek tragedies is hubris. To begin‚ Creon exhibits hubris – excessive pride in oneself. Creon first

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