Essays on Tragic Hero

Tragic Heroes in The Great Gatsby and King Lear A tragic hero is doomed to misfortune not by moral corruption, but by a tragic error in their judgment. Every human, in some way, have their own tragic weaknesses or limitations in their personality. While Shakespeare’s…

A tragic hero is a literary device used in many Shakespearean plays and when reading this play, it becomes evident that Macbeth is a tragic hero. In the play Macbeth by William Shakespeare, Macbeth wants to be king and because of this, he engages in…

A “tragic hero”, according to Greek philosopher, Aristotle, is “a man who is neither a paragon of virtue and justice nor undergoes the change to misfortune through any real badness or wickedness but because of some mistake.” In the novel Things Fall Apart, written by…

 Antigone by Sophocles explore the tragic repercussions of a paranoid tyrant. Creon’s rule is controlled by his fear that people are conspiring against him, leading him to wrongly forbid a burial for Polynices, a man already dead. However, by favoring the laws of the gods…

In the book Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, Okonkwo, the main character lives in africa, and transitions from childhood to manhood with no help from anyone. His father was not a working man and he owed tons of people money but never did anything…

According to , a tragic hero is “a person who faces adversity, or demonstrates courage, in the face of danger. However, sometimes he faces downfall as well” . In the Tragedy “The Crucible”,a farmer by the name of John Proctor committed adultery with Reverend Parris’s…

Every historical event has a narrator and critic who criticize the first version of the story. Plutarch wrote about Julius Caesar, on the other hand, Shakespeare criticized it. Both of them chose the assassination event as a historical moment. Shakespeare who is unlike Plutarch focused…

 In the book Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, Okonkwo, as a tragic hero and the main character lives in Africa, and transitions from childhood to manhood with no help from anyone. His father was not a working man and he owes tons of people…

The renowned philosopher Aristotle formally outlined the parameters of the tragic hero in his work “On Poetics”. Aristotle primarily based his tragic hero model on oedipus, a king from Greek mythology. He outlined the  John Proctor tragic hero as a person of noble birth who…

   According to Aristotle, the archetype tragic hero is a noble literary character who makes an error in judgment that inevitably leads to his or her own destruction (“Tragic Hero”). In William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, the characteristics of a tragic hero are depicted in Marcus…

Many tragic heroes have personal weaknesses, tragic flaw or create choices that cause their downfall . Fictional character may be a nice leader for the military, as a person of unyielding morality, for he has the gentleness of behaviors, the ability of speech, and understanding….

“A villain can be stylish, and his actions don’t have to be explained. Heroes are boring in comparison, even anti-heroes, as there’s always a justification for their bad actions.” -Dhanush In a world filled with heroes and villains, especially in literature, it seems rather complex…

Othello is many things, but it is also a tragedy that grows in the uncertain terrain of discourse and power. The incident is well known: the official Iago plot against Othello, the mercenary general in the service of Venice, a network of lies that leads…

No matter what Country you are from, what Religion you practice, or what Race you are, the idea of a Hero will be somewhere in your literature. We as a species seem infatuated with the concept of one rising above the rest, taking on challenges…

Every time one thinks about a tragedy, they think William Shakespeare. Indeed, the author is one of the greatest writers of drama who has ever lived. Some of his tragic stories include Othello; The Moore of Venice and Juliet and Romeo. In literature, tragedy follows…