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    Fences – Tragic Hero In August Wilson’s play “Fences”‚ he presents a misguided yet accomplished character. The play’s protagonist Troy‚ creates conflict with every character because of his judgmental nature and contrived haughty perception of himself. Through numerous stories that he re-cants Troy embellishes his experiences to cast himself in a righteous light. Contrary‚ to the stories he tells‚ his behavior expose Troy as a foolish man that does irrational things. One moment he is lecturing

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    Tragic heroes are found everywhere throughout literature. A tragic hero is a character who makes a mistake that leads to his or her downfall. According to Aristotle‚ “A man does not become a hero until he can see the root of his own downfall.” In The Crucible by Arthur Miller‚ the protagonist John Proctor is a tragic hero as defined by Aristotle. Proctor makes mistakes and eventually admits what he has done‚ which leads to his death. Tragic heroes must have certain characteristics‚ including error

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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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    Aristotle once said‚ “A man doesn’t become a hero until he can see the root of his own downfall.” Sophocles’s Antigone was written in 440 B.C. which was the time when plays were written based on ancient Greece culture. The idea of a tragic hero was established in Ancient Greece‚ tragic heroes are in ancient Greek plays. A tragic hero is a character who is inherently good‚ has a fatal flaw and loses everything in the end. Creon is Antigone’s tragic hero because his loyalty and obsessive pride influence

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    The character playing the role of Macbeth is considered to be a tragic hero. His actions‚ personality and qualities are three ways to explains why Macbeth is consider to be a tragic hero. At the beginning of the play three witches plan to meet Macbeth after the battle. The King of Scotland is proud of Macbeth for defeating the battle against the Irish. The leader of the Irish was Macdonwald who was one of them and he was rebelling against the King. After the battle with the Irish the Scottish were

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    By definition‚ a tragic hero is a protagonist of noble birth who displays bravery‚ courage‚ and other heroic qualities‚ but is brought down by his or her own tragic flaw. Presented as a hero at the opening of William Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Macbeth‚ Macbeth’s downfall is brought upon as a result of his own tragic flaw: ambition—ambition triggered by the Witches‚ Lady Macbeth‚ and Macbeth’s own hunger for power. “For brave Macbeth—well he deserves that name—disdaining fortune‚ with

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    March 13‚ 2006 Madame Bovary: A Tragic Hero Every tragedy falls into two parts—Complication and Unraveling or Denouement…By Complication I mean all that extends from the beginning of the action to the part which marks the turning point to good or bad fortune. The Unraveling is that which extends from the beginning of the change to the end…There are four kinds of tragedy… [One being] the Pathetic (where the motive is passion). (p. 90) In Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert‚ the protagonist

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    made by the winning side. This story however is explained from the opposite point of view. The character Okonkwo from Things Fall Apart meets Aristotle’s definition of the tragic hero to an extent because only some of his characteristics lead to a downfall in the story. The characteristics he fits by the definition of tragic hero are he has a mixture of good and bad in his personality‚ he has a fatal flaw which leads to his downfall and he has a large capacity of suffering. The characteristics that

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    Caesar What is a tragic hero? A tragic hero is a person of great respect and wisdom. They have a wonderful reputation with their people or civilization‚ but they have to possess a great flaw in character as well. A tragic hero suffers a reversal in his/her fortune‚ and discovers in own downfall was brought on by his own actions or inactions. The audience feels sympathy for the tragic hero‚ for his actions lead to misfortune toward himself and the people he loves. A tragic hero in Julius Caesar is

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    the Poetics‚ a tragic hero should be “between these two extremes—that of a man who is not eminently good and just‚ yet whose misfortune is brought about not by vice or depravity‚ but by some error or frailty.” The ultimate purpose of a tragic hero is to construct catharsis. Doing this by making the audience commiserate with the protagonist producing emotions by having a rise and a plummeting downfall in the character’s life. Some would quarrel that Antigone is certainly the tragic hero because her fate

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