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serve as a compass for the character when facing great and insurmountable odds. Oedipus held staunchly to his moral codes, and whe...

he would take a dim view of Jason abandoning his duty to his wife and children in favor of selfish gain. The chorus would be the...

brother in terms of advice and guidelines for her life which is seen in one scene where her brother tells her to watch out and she...

Aeschylus introduces a complete reversal of gender roles, placing the character of Clytemnestra in a ruling role over Argos in the...

In 5 pages this paper examines righteousness and how Antigone is responding to a higher authority by breaking the law in this trag...

In seven pages this paper examines the life and works of Sophocles with the emphasis upon Antigone....

In five pages this paper defines the catharsis concept and then discusses how audiences identify with the tragic catharsis that oc...

In five pages this paper discusses how Creon represents the elements of a tragic figure in this play by Sophocles. There are 3 so...

in and curse God. He tells his wife, advising her that, just as they accept good from the hand of God, they have to also be willin...

In five pages this paper analyzes the play's tragic elements and then applies them to the experience of the contemporary world....

man who seeks respectability in a white mans society. Despite his many military victories and his marriage to Senator Brabantios ...

In this paper consisting of nine pages the ways in which concepts of morality contributed to the deaths of these tragic heroes is ...

In nine pages this paper analyzes the tragic hero aspects of Hamlet's character in a consideration that also includes Shakespeare'...

contradictions of his character. Certainly, Brutus is strong. Even his name conveys strength. He is idealistic, and at least in...

This paper discusses why Shakespeare's protagonist sufficiently qualifies as being a tragic hero in a consideration of the charact...

In five pages this paper argues that for readers of the 20th century Creon and Antigone appear more like victims than heroes in th...

The entire story of the Bundren family is tragic with its tale of poverty in the South and a family whose members are so caught up...

In a paper consisting of four pages the ways in which Willy Loman and his struggles represent the definitive tragic hero are explo...

In five pages the exciting and tragic story of Cabeza and his Florida colonization efforts on behalf of Spain are discussed....

In five pages this character analysis of John Proctor and whether or not he was portrayed as a tragic hero in Arthur Miller's 1996...

In six pages Hamlet, his mother Gertrude and stepfather Claudius are analyzed within the criteria Aristotle established regarding ...

This paper analyzes these classic characters, noting the traits that qualify them as tragic heroes. This paper has five pages and...

In six pages this paper examines the tragic heroes represented by William Shakespeare's title protagonist Hamlet and Willy Loman i...

theater itself, and his own background upon the stage. Hamlet plays the clown with the other actors who arrive to perform ...

of this play, we find Ibsens comments for what he called his "modern-day tragedy," He says, "There are two kinds of moral law, tw...

In five pages this research paper discusses the tragic hero classification as applied to Arthur Miller's Willy Loman common man pr...

the consuls, raised and met, / Are at the Dukes already. You have been hotly calld for, / When, being not at your lodging to be fo...

The three elements of mythology such as the popular literary motif of the tragic hero, the treatment of women, and the comparing o...

its consequences (Hegel as cited in ODair 215). Hegel further argues that all tragic heroes must encounter a pattern of nobilit...

In five pages this paper considers the tragedy of Hamlet not representing the two dimensions of Medieval heroes who act out of bli...