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    One distinction between comic and tragic drama is that comedies end happily‚ while tragedies do not. To what extent is the ending of Twelfth Night a happy one? Twelfth Night Or What You Will is renowned for being one of Shakespeare’s finest achievements in comedy. The basis of a comedy lies in its characters and plot‚ both of which merge together in a formula to produce an end resolution that can be interpreted as happy‚ and also‚ specifically in the case of Twelfth Night‚ festive

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    play‚ Macbeth is hailed as a war hero‚ by the end he has become an evil tyrant. Explain: A) How Shakespeare conveys Macbeth’s moral decline. B) Why this decline was inevitable. Macbeth is a great example of how Shakespeare uses dramatic irony to convey the moral decline of a brave and admirable hero‚ into a regicide-committing evil tyrant. Macbeth is a great example as the character Macbeth starts the play as a brave and courageous war hero. However towards the end‚ Macbeth

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    A hero is a person that saves people from dangerous times. A hero is a person that saves lives. One day I would like to be called a hero. Heroes are created by events around them. Most people have a person that they call their hero. I sure do have one. Most people say their heroes are they moms or dads. Most kids call their favorite super hero their hero. If all you want is fame it doesn’t matter what you do‚ you shouldn’t be called a hero. Heroic things happens around us all day‚ every day

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    2010 Tragic Hero Usually when reading‚ tragedy and conflict is the most popular way to catch the readers eye. People are attracted to the suffering of the main character who is most of the time the hero in Greek plays. To begin with‚ the audience develops an emotional attachment to the hero‚ people fear what may occur to the hero and end up feeling sorry for him or her. In the Theban Plays the author Sophocles uses the character of Oedipus to demonstrate the qualities of a tragic hero.

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    A Hero In the worlds eye of a hero we tend to think of super heroes from comic books‚ movies ‚ and television shows. Well many of us look up to that special person in our lives that have shown courage and determination to succeed after set backs. My hero in my life is my father. My father was born in a small town in Durango‚Mexico. He was brought to the United States at the age of 6 years old with 6 other siblings. While being raised in South Central Los Angeles‚ California he was brought into

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    modern story or film. I don’t watch much TV besides the news and I only read the newspapers at home so I do not see many stories that are about heroes that end up with the girl of their dreams in those sources. However‚ I can only compare Vandal the Hero to other modern characters. In the tale of Vandal‚ Vandal is described as a foreigner in a foreign land even though he is one of the best knights of King Arthur and Vandal serves the king utterly well‚ however King Arthur does not reward him nor recognize

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    Hero A hero to me is someone who has courage‚ bravery or the ability to do something out of the ordinary to help another person and expect nothing in return. A hero has many definitions that show examples like comic book super heroes to your local police officers but in reality any normal person can be a hero in someone’s eyes. You see heroes everywhere but sometimes you just never pay attention to what’s going on. For example you can be walking downtown and pass by an alley where someone

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    this extract? In relation to the rest of the novel‚ how typical are the tragic features used here? When thinking of a tragic novel or play‚ you may think of the great Greek tragedies. You may think of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. You may even think of a more modern play such as Death of a Salesman or Hardy’s Novel Tess of the D’Urbervilles. All of these end‚ as has become the custom for tragedy‚ with the death of their tragic heroes. Ian McEwan manages to instill in us the same empathetic and‚

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    Beowulf protects his followers and king‚ and is proud of his accomplishments. He strives for greatness‚ his words are arrogant but his actions shine through his overbearing pride and give him the capability to be heroic. (Part B) Beowulf is an epic hero; he takes great pride in his actions‚ unlike Grendel who feels jealous of humans which causes him to be spiteful towards them: “ Grendel snatched at the first Geat / He came to (and) Ripped him apart” (313-314). Grendel’s pride lays in the fear he

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    WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWLSearch Results Hero - IMDb www.imdb.com/title/tt0299977/‎ Rating: 7.9/10 - ‎123‚269 votes Directed by Yimou Zhang. With Jet Li‚ Tony Leung Chiu Wai‚ Maggie Cheung‚ Ziyi Zhang. One man defeated three assassins who sought to murder the most ... Hero - Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hero‎ A hero (heroine for a female) (Ancient Greek: ἥρως‚ hḗrōs)‚ in Greek mythology and folklore‚ was originally a demigod‚ their cult being one of the most ... ‎Hero (disambiguation) -

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