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In 8 pages this paper examines the concept of the tragic hero in a comparison of King Lear by William Shakespeare and Sophocles' O...

Lear," Lear chooses the love and respect of his children as the highest good, and so can only suffer from loss of their love and r...

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

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

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

In ten pages this paper examines postmodern philosopher Stanley Cavell's views on William Shakespeare's tragic plays Antony and Cl...

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

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

evolves to become so much more than he, at first, appeared to be as he came to see the errors of his ways by the end of the play a...

In five pages this paper argues that the protagonist of Sophocles' play successfully satisfies the classical tragic hero criteria ...

In eight pages these tragic heroes created by William Shakespeare and Sophocles are contrasted and compared. Eight sources are ci...

In five pages Aristotle's definition of a tragic hero is applied to these two literary monarchs. One source is cited in the bibli...

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

sons leads him to raise them as privileged beings that deserve having everything handed to them, simply by virtue of who they are....

were associated with him. Indeed, his story continues to deeply impact our emotions even today. Aristotle posited that a tragic ...

not fixd His canon gainst self-slaughter! O God! God! How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this wor...

a man who has a prophecy following him, and he is a man who is relatively clueless about what is going on. He inadvertently kills ...

they can stop the men from going off to war and would ultimately bring some peace. The premise of the story is a tragic one, in th...

In this introduction to the character of Titus it is obvious that he is well regarded and that he has a reputation of being a nobl...

a cave. They make love and, from this point on, Dido considers them to be married even though a ceremony has not officially consec...

truth about who killed his wifes husband is being uncovered. He shows himself again as noble by insisting that justice be done and...

tragic hero. Creon, on the other hand, realized his mistake when Teiresias made his prophecy. He is forced to live, knowing that...

old families and the nouveau riche, who had made their fortunes in more recent years" (Books and Writers). For the most part this ...

is wildly jealous of Elizabeth (Miller, 2003). Abigail is also the leader of the towns young women, and she and her friends were...

enough to truly consider them a hero. For example, Miranda is one who is strong and determined. She wants to change the world and ...

complete madness, until at last Elizabeth Proctor, who is completely innocent, is charged with being a witch (Miller, 1952). Not s...

in the audience, because the audience members can see themselves as part of this chain of cause-and-effect (McManus). Lets very b...

her. Antigone The second question involves characters in the story of Antigone. The characters under discussion are Antig...

the "tragic flaw." In Oedipuss case, his tragic flaw is his pride. That flaw has to cause him great suffering, but from that suffe...