have argued that Othello is not a true Shakespearean tragic hero. Explore the idea that Shakespeare intended to make Othello fit the criteria of his tragic hero with comparison to Macbeth.’ By Marina Georgallides A tragic hero‚ determined by Aristotle‚ must show a nobility and virtue of a certain magnitude however‚ their path to happiness should be ceased by their destructive vice (Harmartia- the flaw that eventually leads to their downfall). Peripeteia‚ the point where the character’s fortune
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her‚ and takes her own life in response. In the end the families‚ both with losses‚ end their feud and make statues of the other’s child in honor. Since the release of the play‚ many people have wondered: who is most at fault for the tragedy that is Romeo and Juliet. Some blame Balthazar‚ other blame Romeo or Juliet themselves. The evidence reveals that the families are at fault for their own losses‚ because the families have brought nothing but anger‚ grief‚ and mischief to Verona. Some of the evidence
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In the play "Romeo and Juliet" Many people were responsible were responsible for the two star crossed lovers deaths‚ but the out of all the characters Juilet is the most to blame. It was Juliet’s fault because she did not tell her family and that caused a lot of problems. The biggest person effected for not being told was Tybalt. He was so enraged when Romeo showed up to the Capulet’s party. In this scene Tybalt says that he will get his revenge on Romeo. After he sends Romeo a letter to challenge
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other. They were blinded until their children took their lives. You could say that it was romeo and juliet’s fault or you could say that it was not at all their fault; instead the fault lays on both of them. Romeo and juliet were not completely to blame‚ because of their families feud‚ and their unmuertiy‚ and there lack of parental support. Romeo and juliet made the greatest sacrifice
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Although Oedipus is an ideal leader who saved Thebes from the monstrous Sphinx‚ his fatal flaws of anger and pride ultimately lead to his tragic downfall. One example of Oedipus’s flaw that caused his downfall is his hot temper. Because of Oedipus’s hot temper‚ he acts before he thinks. One example of his quick temper occurs when Oedipus killed Laius where three highways meet. Laius‚ who was in a rush to get to the Oracle of Delphi to save Thebes‚ tried to run Oedipus off of the rode with his colt-drawn
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Ambition is described as eager for success‚ power or fame. For Macbeth. Ambition was what drove him to become great‚ it forced him to change his nature towards evil. At the beginning of the play‚ Macbeth was portrayed as a courageous soldier who fought for his King without mercy. But once the witches planted the seeds of greater things and Lady Macbeth fuelled his ambition‚ which lead him to become greedy and power hungry. Macbeth was led down to an unescapable road of doom by an outside force
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deliberately creates characters that can be held accountable for the tragic deaths of the central roles. Their untimely demise can be attributed to four contributing factors: The poor advice of Friar Lawrence and the Nurse‚ the two feuding households‚ the impulsive behaviour of our chief protagonists and the cruel bitter irony of fortune. Friar Lawrence’s ill-thought out action was one of the main contributions to the downfall of Romeo & Juliet. His actions in marrying the two resulted in a
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The blame for the Cold War cannot be placed on one person -- it developed as a series of chain reactions as a struggle for supremacy. It can be argued that the Cold War was inevitable‚ and therefore no one’s fault‚ due to the differences in the capitalist and communist ideologies. It was only the need for self-preservation that had caused the two countries to sink their differences temporarily during the Second World War. Yet many of the tensions that existed in the Cold War can be attributed to
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A. The Great Depression was caused by an economic system out of balance. There was too much supply with little demand. This situation was created by monopoly pricing‚ unsound banking practices‚ overproduction‚ high tariffs‚ and tightening of money supply by Federal Reserve Board. B. A slump in economic activity with over speculation in stock and buying stocks on margin caused the stock market to crash in October 1929. The stock market crash marked the beginning of Great Depression. C. The
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Love Gone Wrong By: Celeste Smith If anybody is to blame for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet‚ it would be the families. If it weren’t for the rivalry between the Capulets and Montagues‚ Romeo and Juliet wouldn’t have had to be married in secret; Tybalt wouldn’t have felt the need to fight Romeo (who turned it down because his wife‚ Juliet‚ was kin to Tybalt which caused Mercutio to jump in and be killed)‚ and Juliet wouldn’t have gone to Friar Lawrence in search of a solution to not having to be
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