the root of all evil. In Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness‚ Kurtz exemplifies this exact situation of becoming somewhat addicted to gaining riches and lets his darker side take control. This tragic obsession eventually leads to his character’s downfall. Kurtz is a character who takes his success in his job and his power over the “savages” very seriously and accepts darkness into his life because of the hunger for money. Making money is like a religion to him. He uses this power in the business
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The Tragic Downfall of Willy Loman According to Aristotle‚ a tragic character is not a good man who fails‚ nor an evil man who rises to opulence. A tragic character is in fact somewhere in between the two extremities someone who is not necessarily unsurpassed in virtue and veracity‚ but also not culpable of debauchery and decadence. A tragic character has simply made "mistake‚" however a fatal one‚ that causes his demise (Esch). Arthur Miller describes a tragic flaw as "a failing that is
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about his future position as King of Scotland and ideas of murder and deceit towards the current king well up inside his mind‚ but he is too reluctant to carry out any of these ideas. Macbeths wife‚ Lady Macbeth‚ also plays a role in Macbeths downfall. After Macbeth tells his wife about the witches‚ Lady Macbeth comes to the same conclusion as Macbeth without a second though. Macbeth firmly denies the murder of King Duncan‚ the present king‚ as he is a gallant king who is loved by everyone. Lady
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Ember Jenison Mrs. Hinds DE Brit. Lit. – Critical Essay 11/26/12 King Lear: Self-Inflicted Tragedies King Lear‚ written by William Shakespeare‚ tells of the tragedies the old king experiences. Lear loses his kingdom‚ is betrayed by his daughters‚ loses his pride and dignity‚ and loses the one daughter who truly loves him. All of these events could have been easily avoided. The tragedies that King Lear experience are of his own devices. Every event listed above are consequences of Lear’s
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In the play Othello by William Shakespeare the current state of affairs is disturbing. Schemes‚ lies and murder are what now defines the characters. Iago is to blame for this chaos. At the beginning of the play Othello was the noble stature‚ a person that was well respected and a person that people could look up too. As the play goes on and Iago’s plan becomes reality Othello achieves human flaw. While the audience wishes to believe in Othello‚ his errors cause them to slowly lose hope. Iago’s deceiving
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The Blaming of the Downfall of Macbeth William Shakespeare’s Macbeth has a character who goes insane due to the taunting of three sneaky witches. The witches explain to Macbeth that if he “gets rid of King Duncan‚” he will become king. Slowly but surely‚ Macbeth and his shady wife plot the murder of the King which eventually leads to his downfall. Macbeth’s wife‚ who is known in the play as Lady Macbeth‚ messes with Macbeth’s mind by telling him that she would question his manhood if he
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This is my account of Macbeth’s downfall from a popular‚ successful soldier‚ quote "What he hath lost‚ noble Macbeth hath won"‚ who has received great honours for his loyalty‚ his courage‚ his bravery and his nobility. At the end of the play the only respect he has is because of the fear that his subjects have of him. "Great Dunsinane he strongly fortifies // some say he’s mad‚ others that lesser hate him." I will go through Macbeth’s soliloquies and chart his character
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breaking point for the studio heads. Although Judy managed to bring in money with box office hits‚ especially with her last film Summer Stock being a financial hit‚ MGM finally terminated their contract with her in 1950. The reason for her downfall? The unwavering addiction to her pills‚ the same pills she was given at the credulous age of 12 where she signed her name over to MGM. Not to say she was the only child actress to be given pills but she was the one star Hollywood cared most about
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Gatsby fought for the love of Daisy Buchanan‚ but his downfall made Daisy’s decision between a life in West Egg or East Egg much simpler. Daisy lived a ‘perfect’ life in East Egg with her husband Tom Buchanan‚ but everything was not as it seemed. On the day of Daisy’s rehearsal dinner‚ she was found drunk‚ crying‚ and grasping a letter. Daisy would not let go of the letter and “she took it into the tub with her and squeezed it up into a wet ball‚ and only let me[Jordan] leave it in the soap-dish
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The Waterfall Effect Of Vietnam Victoria L. Balestreri‚ RN August 4‚ 2013 HUMN415 – Vietnam and the Twentieth Century Experience Professor Kucsan As the United States made their way through Vietnam taking with them an undisclosed amount of sacrificed human life‚ both on the American side and there amongst the Vietnam people. The driving force behind them came from thousands of miles away‚ where a word spoken became the action to carry out. Under no circumstances do the American’s cross
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