Pace University English 120 October 29‚ 2009 Tragic Hero/Narcissist The tragic heroes and narcissists in the short story “A Good Man is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’Connor are the Grandmother and the Misfit. However‚ the focus is on the Grandmother and how she is in the grandiosity phase of being a tragic hero. There are personality characteristics associated with this phase‚ some of which the Grandmother has. She feels entitlement to get and do what she wants. In the story she takes her
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What makes a hero a hero? Does a hero only have resilient‚ courageous‚ handsome‚ or morally upright characteristics like that of a traditional hero? According to the Oxford English Dictionary‚ there is hero known as the anti-hero which is described as “the opposite or reverse of a hero.” An anti-hero is an unconventional‚ flawed hero who does not follow the conventional values of the culture or the traditional guidelines of a hero. An anti-hero has good intentions but goes about these intentions
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‘Hamlet’ is a revenge tragedy and therefore has a traditional tragic hero and tragic villain. Hamlet follows the typical features of a tragic hero as he is a revenger with a tragic flaw leading to his death. However‚ it can be seen that Claudius is not a typical villain‚ as he does appear to have some redeeming features. Literary critic F.C. Hunt stated that ‘Claudius is painted by Shakespeare as bold‚ keen-sighted and resourceful’. Although all of these features are redeeming and there are many
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To what extent does Williams present desire as a tragic flaw in scene six of ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ In A Streetcar Named Desire Blanche’s flaws that lead to her downfall are abundant. If we are to view Blanche Dubois as a tragic heroine‚ then it is in scene six that her tragic flaws are especially evident‚ and in particular desire. They are so prevalent here as it is arguably the beginning of Blanche’s demise and as in Shakespearean tragedy; it is in the centre of the play that we see
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antiheroes? Looking in to this topic I have found a lot of useful sources that explain why television audiences love antiheroes‚ looking at the programme braking bad I have found evidence of what makes the viewers attracted to Walter White the anti-hero and why all the way through the programme the audience route for Walter. Reading an article from suite 101 on the rise of television antiheroes it suggests that “As audience‚ we might not share his vices‚ but we share his virtues and sympathise with
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“To what extent is Iago presented by Shakespeare as a tragic villain without any redeeming features?” From the very outset of “Othello” we are made aware that Iago is the villain of the play. In fact Iago is not only one of the most well-recognised villains‚ he is also the one character who is given the most dialogue out of all of Shakespeare’s work. One of the many reasons why the character of Iago is still appreciated and celebrated could possibly be because of the way that he was the embodiment
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is also quite divergent and through use of dramatic devices‚ diction‚ contrast‚ and imagery Sophocles accentuates the similarities in character yet a clash in values Antigone and Creon‚ thus potentially creating two tragic heroes. In order to assess whether or not both are tragic characters‚ initially it’s imperative to analyze their conflictive values. Creons character attaches importance to the state and his own law rather than anything else‚ whereas Antigones appears to put family first and
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Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov‚ the protagonist in Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s novel Crime and Punishment is a penniless Russian ex-student who undergoes a psychological breakdown which lead to him committing the murder of his landlord Alyona Ivanovna and her sister Lizaveta Ivanovna. In the novel the numbers two‚ four and eight represent Raskolnikov’s attempt to achieve redemption. While the ages of Raskolnikov and Sonya‚ Raskolnikov’s love interest‚ reveal the current mental state and relationship between
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play‚ Macbeth is hailed as a war hero‚ by the end he has become an evil tyrant. Explain: A) How Shakespeare conveys Macbeth’s moral decline. B) Why this decline was inevitable. Macbeth is a great example of how Shakespeare uses dramatic irony to convey the moral decline of a brave and admirable hero‚ into a regicide-committing evil tyrant. Macbeth is a great example as the character Macbeth starts the play as a brave and courageous war hero. However towards the end‚ Macbeth
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One distinction between comic and tragic drama is that comedies end happily‚ while tragedies do not. To what extent is the ending of Twelfth Night a happy one? Twelfth Night Or What You Will is renowned for being one of Shakespeare’s finest achievements in comedy. The basis of a comedy lies in its characters and plot‚ both of which merge together in a formula to produce an end resolution that can be interpreted as happy‚ and also‚ specifically in the case of Twelfth Night‚ festive
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