A “tragic hero” as defined by Aristotle is that the main character must go through four critical stages within the text. The phases that Aristotle states the character has to go through must completely lead to his or her own complete downfall. These four phases in which Aristotle states is: Perietia‚ Hamartia‚ Catharsis‚ and Anagnorisis. Lastly Aristotle states that the tragic hero must be a nobleman or a man of great stature. Yet by Othello having such positive aspects they are responsible for bringing
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Macbeth’s tragic flaw is his infatuation with becoming a high power‚ and refusing to disappoint his lady by being a "coward". Lady Macbeth’s definition of being a coward‚ is playing fair instead of playing dirty. Lady Macbeth insists he is a coward‚ and he will not become of the high power if he does not play dirty. When he shows his disinterest in playing dirty‚ Lady Macbeth manipulates him by telling him he is not being a man. Because of Macbeth’s infatuation with becoming of high power‚ and his
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In the play Oedipus the King‚ Oedipus the main character meets with a tragic fate. In the beginning he is a mighty king‚ ruler of the city of Thebes. Then the people of Thebes come to him with a problem. The city is tragically on the surge of death. Oedipus‚ being the mighty king he is‚ is determined to solve the problem. Oedipus saved the city once before and became a hero. Now faced with this problem he would like to be a hero again‚ but things don’t always take a turn out
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heroes‚ but they are all heroes in a different way. To me‚ in order to be a hero‚ all you need to do is put someone else’s life in front of your own‚ if you can change someone else’s life you can then call yourself a hero. Aristotle once said that a tragic hero is "one who does not fall into misfortune though vice or depravity‚ but falls because of some mistake". In the play Fences by August Wilson‚ the main character Troy Maxson proves himself to be a hero in my eyes‚ he puts the life of a young girl
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When Abigail threatens to accuse yet another innocent soul of witchcraft in her plot to have him to herself‚ John Proctor breaks forth‚ shouting‚ “It [Abigail] is a whore!... I have made a bell of my honor! I have rung the doom of my good name—you will believe me‚ Mr. Danforth! My wife is innocent‚ except she knew a whore when she saw one!” (Miller 3.3). John Proctor‚ the protagonist of the play‚ The Crucible‚ by Arthur Miller‚ has an affair with Abigail Williams‚ a seventeen-year-old orphan‚ which
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Juliette Asten Mrs. Ricken AP Language 1 February‚ 2013 A Tragic Excuse There is a fine discrepancy between what’s right or wrong‚ and the "tragic hero" is said to be on the controversial cusp. His actions are good intentioned‚ but flawed. In William Shakespeare’s "Julius Caesar‚" Marcus Brutus’s elaborate character is argued to be a tragic hero‚ largely because he appears to meet the three requirements: Being born into nobility but with a fatal flaw‚ making a self-inflicted mistake‚ and winning
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Antigone is a tragic hero. Aristotle says that there are specific characteristics that compose a tragic hero. The hero must suffer more than she deserves‚ the hero must be doomed from the start‚ but bears no responsibility for possessing his flaw‚ the hero’s story should arouse fear and empathy‚ and he has to be faced with a very serious decision that he has to make. Antigone applies all of these categories to be a tragic hero. Antigone is not afraid to be a tragic hero and knows what she is doing
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Creon the Tragic Figure Throughout the play Antigone‚ Creon is portrayed as the king of discipline and pride. Creon’s pride is what makes him the tragic figure of Antigone. Though Antigone takes her life as the result of her sentence from Creon‚ it is not her pride that defines her fate but her unwillingness to accept her fate. Creon‚ King of Thebes‚ suffers his fate of pride. Not by his own demise‚ but his denial of Antigones brother Polynices burial; this caused catastrophic events in Creon’s
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An expository essay: Tragic flaw in Hawthorne’s “The Birthmark” In literature a tragic flaw refers in plain words when the main character ends up dead or defeated a characteristic feature of the heroes of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short stories‚ “Young Goodman Brown‚” “The Minister’s Black Veil”‚ and “The Birthmark”. However this concept is even more extensive and best explained in terms of “Hamartia”. According to the Encyclopedia Britannica that word can be understood as an inherent defect in
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continues to ask Othello to reinstate Cassio‚ then her lord would do it for her in which she later realizes that Iago is putting lies into her husband’s head about her cheating. A tragic hero is a character that makes a judgement call that ends up being wrong and leads to their own destruction. What establishes Othello as a tragic hero is when he realizes that Iago is lying to him and that Desdemona isn’t cheating on him and he kills himself because he realizes that he couldn’t live without her. In Act
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