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In eight pages these ancient Greek tragic protagonists featured in Oedipus Rex by Sophocles and Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus are ...

This 5 page paper compares three tragedies and their protagonists: Oedipus from Oedipus Rex, Macbeth from Macbeth and Odysseus fro...

First, is that the play should be of serious magnitude, and have an impact on many, many people (McClelland, 2001). The second fac...

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

cultures. In addition, the kind of difficulties and trials faced by different ancient communities will also tend to be similar. On...

In seven pages the classical Greek definition of hero as revealed in the epic poems of Homer is discussed....

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

plague wreaks death and despair onto the Theban people, Oedipus pride motivates him to make a deal whereby he reveals the identity...

A 10 page analysis of the tragic hero as he manifests in these two classic plays. Twists of events affect these heroes differentl...

In six pages this paper examines the transformation of the epic hero in ancient Greek literary works such as Euripides' Medea, Sop...

still just one being who is in constant struggle with his own existence. When determining who truly exercises power in an a...

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...

Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Sclarlet Letter is analyzed for the presence of a tragic hero. Using Aristotle standards the author of ...

the foot of power!/Nothing care I for Zeus" (Aeschylus). In other words, Prometheus will not succumb to tyranny and a power that r...

of Willys character shows him to be a highly flawed man, who makes innumerable mistakes and brings about his own tragic demise by ...

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...

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

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

This 10 page essay explores the tragic heroes in these classic plays. Oedipus believes he makes his own destiny while Willy belie...

In five pages this paper examines how a tragic literary hero is defined by Aristotle in Poetics and then applied to Oedipus. One ...

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

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

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

may very well lie in the study of some of the most earliest of heroes from the texts of Homer and Plato. By far one of the most en...

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

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

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

An eight page research paper considering the literary concept of the hero's journey in this classic science fiction film by direct...

birth was that he would kill his father and marry his mother, a pronouncement so shocking that Laius and Jocasta felt they needed ...