both Creon and Antigone suffer from tragic flaws which eventually lead to their downfall. Creon and Antigone cannot control their excessive pride so they eventually pay for their hubris. Antigone’s tragic flaw is her uncompromising‚ unyielding passion for burying Polynieces. Her Hubris gets the best of her‚ as does Creon’s‚ and is due to be bured alive. Antigone’s arrogance and excessive pride eventually led to her downfall‚ but her arrogance towards Creon eventually led to her death. Creon’s tragic
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Discuss the importance of the character of Elizabeth and consider how Miller makes us respond to her throughout the play (30 marks) Throughout the Crucible Miller uses Elizabeth‚ who is a pious character‚ as a judge of character. Through her eyes we learn who is innately good such as Rebecca Nurse‚ we learn that John Proctor is a tragic hero whose fatal flaw is that he is “somewhat bewildered” and that Abigail truly is “a whore” with an “endless capacity for dissembling”. The audience trusts her
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Eddie Blinkov Lean On Me In the movie called Lean On Me‚ Joe Clark the principal uses methods to establish authority in the school and these are the ways he did that. Firstly‚ he comes off as a very strict and disrespectful man to establish dominance in the school with the teachers and students. An example of this is when he first came into the school and yelled at all the teachers for doing a bad job to educate the students. This shows that Joe really cares for these children and wants the teachers
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money is the center of her world and she doesn’t know anything other than money. But this essay is not about money; it is about Daisy and how she is the ultimate reason Gatsby is murdered. Yes‚ she didn’t pull the trigger‚ but she committed the acts that led up to his being fatally shot and her love of money leads to Gatsby’s downfall. Desperation for money is how Daisy survives‚ she is desperate for it and she knows nothing else. Her cares in the world included money and a man with money. Evidently
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disbelief that a woman could defy his power. Therefore‚ the fact that Antigone is a determined and powerful woman makes Creon paranoid and ultimately causes his downfall. To start with‚ Antigone’s femininity is something that surprises Creon. During the period that Antigone was written in‚ women were treated of lower class than men. Creon does not expect a woman to defy a man in power‚ as this has never happened in his time before. Women are expected to bow down to men. Ismene is shown to follow this
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Arthur Miller uses a number of devices in order to dramatise the conflict between John and Elizabeth. The device that is most apart to the audience is the staging. Miller very effectively uses this to physically show that there is a deep rift running through their relationship‚ and home. The large and detailed opening stage direction shows that he has put a lot of thought into how he wanted to portray his feelings. The opening directions describe the house as “low‚ dark... and empty”. This is symbolic
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foreboding tragedy of “Macbeth” explains the story of the tragic hero‚ Macbeth‚ who strives to be the King of Scotland. However‚ he is destined for his downfall near the end of the play because of his tragic flaw‚ his obsession of power. In turn Macbeth’s obsession with being held to a higher rank and the influence of women both lead to his tragic downfall. It is evident that Shakespeare gives Macbeth an overconfident‚ tone throughout the play. In the beginning of the play it seems that Macbeth
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mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness". The book which I read is the story about how the society was manipulated by the fear of the unknown or different. Therefore‚ in my opinion people in Salem were afraid of a devil and this fear shaped their society to judge and perceive normal women as witches and in consequences killed them. Fear was one of the most important things which shaped society but as Miller wrote in his book lies were affected society almost in the same way. Abigail‚ the main
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How does Miller create Mood and Atmosphere in this extract? (Scene where Eddie kisses Catherine and Rodolfo) At the beginning of this extract there is a sense of dramatic irony as the audience knows that this will be a drama filled extract because they know that Rodolfo and Catherine have gone into the bedroom and may have assumed that they have slept together. They also know that Eddie is drunk‚ ‘He is unsteady‚ drunk.’ The tension in the atmosphere is caused by the fact that Eddie is drunk
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How does Miller present Joe Keller as a tragic hero In All My Sons? Joe Keller is a man who loves and values his family very much and has sacrificed everything‚ including his honour‚ in his struggle to make his family prosperous. In the 1940s the American dream was one that everyone possessed. The American dream promised wealth‚ happiness and anything a citizen could ever want. This concept of perfect life was one that Joe tried his very hardest to live by so that he could provide for his family
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