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    The Tragic Figure of Antigone When people recall tragedies‚ they often think Shakespearean. These tragedies were usually named after their tragic protagonists (e.g.‚ Romeo and Juliet‚ Macbeth‚ Julius Caesar‚ Hamlet‚ Othello). However‚ many tragic characters did not have an eponymous play. For example‚ in Antigone‚ a woman loses her life trying to honor her fallen brother and inadvertently causes Creon‚ the king‚ to lose his wife and daughter. Since we have two important characters’ detriments‚

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    extreme sorrow‚ especially as a consequence of a tragic flaw‚ moral weakness‚ or inability to cope with unfavorable circumstances‚" to the modern meaning of the word‚ "a lamentable‚ dreadful‚ or fatal event or affair" (Random House Unabridged Dictionary). As a result‚ readers of the Greek plays have different thoughts about the "tragic hero" of the story. Often‚ they assume that because something bad or dreadful happened to the character‚ he must be a tragic character‚ thus missing a key part of the Greek’s

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    Creon the Tragic Figure Throughout the play Antigone‚ Creon is portrayed as the king of discipline and pride. Creon’s pride is what makes him the tragic figure of Antigone. Though Antigone takes her life as the result of her sentence from Creon‚ it is not her pride that defines her fate but her unwillingness to accept her fate. Creon‚ King of Thebes‚ suffers his fate of pride. Not by his own demise‚ but his denial of Antigones brother Polynices burial; this caused catastrophic events in Creon’s

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    wanted what was in the best interest for the roman population. Brutus’s tragic flaw was that he was too trusting. He honestly felt that he had to kill Caesar in order to save Rome from tyranny. He trusted Mark Antony not to blame the conspirators in his speech at Caesar’s funeral. Mark Antony broke his promise and got Brutus and the others into deep trouble. Brutus indeed ended up in a position‚ from his own actions‚ that is tragic to the reader. In the play The Tragedy of Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare

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    The novel Frankenstein is based on a man named Victor who tells his tragic story to another man‚ Walton‚ who like him; is craving knowledge. Victor tells Walton about his tragic story‚ creating a terrible monster‚ and his suffering; hoping to inspirer Walton to put a halt to his search for knowledge. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein portrays a tragedy along the guidelines of Aristotle. Aristotle is a Greek Philosopher who wrote many passages about an abundance subjects‚ such as theater‚ drama‚ or science

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    Critic Northrop Frye once commented that "Tragic heroes are so much the highest points in their human landscapes" (Frye 1). Few characters illustrate this characteristic of a tragic hero better than that of Victors Frankenstein‚ the protagonist of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. His story is one of a brilliant man whose revolutionary ideas brought suffering to himself‚ his family and friends‚ and his creation. Victor is an instrument as well as a victim to this suffering throughout his story. From

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    In the play Antigone‚ Creon is the tragic figure because he has many character flaws which lead to his downfall and consequential remorse. Creon is the king in this play‚ and has control over laws and people. This constant power brings out all of the worst and most dangerous characteristics in Creon. He affects many people‚ both verbally and physically and makes a lasting on impact on the city of Thebes. When the story begins‚ Creon has issued a law forbidding the proper burial of a fallen soldier

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    A tragic Figure of a View from the Bridge In his play A View from the Bridge‚ Arthur Miller tells the story of Eddie Carbone‚ an illiterate longshoreman‚ who has an incestuous love for his niece‚ which drives him to his own tragedy. The story is set in 1950s America‚ in an Italian American neighborhood near the Brooklyn Bridge in New York. The play has the ingredients of a traditional Greek tragedy‚ complete with Alfieri‚ a narrator that fulfills the same purpose as Sophocles’s chorus from his plays

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    Discuss the significance of father-figures in Frankenstein Frankenstein is a story of science gone dreadfully amiss. Shelley offers depth and meaning to Frankenstein by presenting (sometimes covertly so) insinuations of failed father and son relationships littered throughout the story. The most obvious relationship in this story is that between Victor Frankenstein and his monster‚ however‚ there are other characters in the story that present themselves as father-figures. In this essay‚ I will endeavour

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    to participate in death and destruction? There is ample evidence of both fate and free will in the play‚ and the presence of both greatly affects the interpretation of the plot and the characters. I personally believe that Romeo and Juliet are tragic figures. The characters’ personalities‚ the feud‚ and simple bad luck cause most of the problems that arise throughout the play. Tybalt indirectly causes Romeo’s exile by attempting to incite him to a duel‚ which leads to Tybalt fighting with Mercutio

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