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

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

In five pages this paper examines how irony heightens the tragedy in William Shakespeare's Othello. There are no other sources li...

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

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...

tortured marriage. The world of George and Martha is a closed, stagnant environment. It is filled with highly destructive element...

is perhaps the worst mistake he could have made. He was not a man of murder, or a man who lusted after power. But, his wife was bo...

where there were festivals and dancing choruses which appear to have competed for prizes (ClassicNote). At one point it appears as...

("Introduction"). An example of this might be the concept of the senseless murder. Some suggest that this is an oxymoron. After al...

had erred so completely, even though he did so unknowingly, his only recourse was to take his own life. In Fight Club, then, th...

him. He is a man who holds to the laws of his people, he is strong and courageous, and he is fairly well defined. But events take ...

forty and has epilepsy. However, the source of Jessies psychic pain is not her condition, but rather the fact that she has never ...

will ultimately cause her her life. Antigone pleads and does whatever she can possibly think of to get an honorable burial for ...

condition involves the paradoxical feeling on the part of the spectator that what has happened could not have happened otherwise, ...

individual would grow up, kill his father, and marry his mother. In reality, few people would ever find themselves in such a circu...

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

a Venetian and traduced the state, I took by ththroat the circumcis?d do And smote him thus" (Act V. ii. 334 - 352)...

several attacks that effectively took down three planes and it is thought that two others were destroyed as well (1998). The ene...

the span of a day comes face-to-face with the realization that the American Dream has become a nightmare of his own making, that t...

others, or more intelligent than others. In short, there must be some element which somehow sets him above the average man, but ye...

not apply. First, the tragic hero is supposed to be a combination of good and bad traits. Othello is a Moorish commander who has...

confidant. Of course, the tragedy is, Iagos intent is to destroy Othello. Secondly, the tragic hero holds fast to his ideas and ...

his carefully crafted public persona. For an ambitious couple like Lord and Lady Macbeth, in a monarchy like Scotland, there was ...

importance to his life, telling her, "Youre my foundation and my support" (18). Everything he did was ultimately rooted in love f...

a tragic character as he remembers events from his past and why things went wrong. Through this process, he seems to be losing tou...

me to run from this Jew my master. The fiend is at mine elbow and tempts me saying to me Gobbo, Launcelot Gobbo, good Launcelot, o...

of fate. In the process, our sympathy is aroused" (The tragic hero). Within this definition, tragedy also is included in that it ...

a noble falls, he takes a lot of people with him. Thats true here, where Othellos suspicion results in his destruction, as well as...

keep him out of their clutches: "Because I would not see thy cruel nails / Pluck out his poor old eyes, nor they fierce sister / I...

with a trio of witch siblings (described in the text as the weird sisters), who issue this prediction to the Thane: THIRD WITCH. A...