According to the ancient Greeks, a tragedy is a serious drama therefore a Greek drama. The play Antigone is considered to be one of those serious dramas. Whereas Trifles by Susan Glaspell is a more modern drama. The theater and its various genres has been around for as long as time can tell. It has always been a form of entertainment but within that amusement it has also been a way to teach and show people life lessons and values.
Also, he fought for the revenge for his wife that they killed to get to him. William Wallace is brave, courageous and loyal to the most heroic. Gilgamesh was just watching his friend getting beaten by Humbaba. Gilgamesh is a coward and scared. He almost took the monster bibe before he chopped off his head.
It is here where Hero ties to the theme. The theme of “Much Ado about Nothing” is that losing your honor is worth dying or killing over. Hero even goes to say “Prove you that any man with me conversed At hours unmeet, or that I yesternight Maintained the change of words with any creature, Refuse me, hate me, torture me to death!” (IV i 191-194) Hero would rather die or be killed than to live having people think that she is no longer a virgin. Her virginity to her was a sign of her honor as a maid. Hero’s own father says “Death is the fairest cover for her shame” (IV i 122).
John Proctor – John is an honest, blunt-spoken, good man with a temper. His affair with Miss Williams, creates her jealousy of his wife, which causes the whole witch hysteria. Proctor realises he can stop Abigail but only if he confesses to his adultery. Confessing to this would ruin his good name, he is a proud man who puts great emphasis on his reputation. Eventually he makes an attempt, through Mary Warren’s testimony, to name Abigail as a fraud without revealing crucial information about the affair.
Cassio is simply a handsome, virile man and this makes Othello jealous. Lago’s own wife Emilia is ignorant of his actions, she will do anything he said because she loves him but Iago always uses her rather than treat her as a woman he truly loves. Iago explains that his hatred of Othello is for choosing Cassio as his officer not him as he had expected. However, after Iago has aroused Othello’s suspicions about his wife’s behaviour, Othello becomes inarticulate and ferocious. Also, this is the first time that Othello, not Iago or anyone, just himself been a negative attention to either his nationality or his age, he feels like he is the outsider of them all.
But Brutus causes his own downfall when after killing Caesar all of Rome turns against the conspirators. And all these events cause his death. However, the factors that have made him a tragic hero are discussed below: The main reason that Marcus Brutus deserves the title of tragic hero is his noble personality. First of all, throughout the play, he never deceives anyone. Although he did murder Julius Caesar, it was for the good of Rome, not to deceive Caesar.
Due to Creon’s tragic flaw and destructive pride, he suffered at the hands of the angry Gods. According to Aristotle, a tragedy “arouses pity and fear in the audience so that they may be cleansed of these unsettling emotions.” Dr. Larry A. Brown, a professor of theater, says a tragedy “examines the major questions of human existence. Why are we here? How can we know the will of the gods?
More often than not, the hero is of nobility or holds a high ranking position. By using familiar characters in Greek writing and also establishing a descriptive character list at the beginning of the play, we know that Medea and her husband, Jason, are of nobility. The beginning of the play introduces Medea and sets the tone for another common tragic hero trait- the ability to elicit pity from the audience. Medea’s introduction presents her as a woman suffering at the hands of her unfaithful husband. Jason’s betrayal of Medea brings about sympathy for her, now having no husband and being unable to return home after the despicable way she treated her family.
He assists the grandmother with her transformation. He is an evil man who, by ending the grandmothers life, assists her by making her a better person in death. “‘She would of been a good woman,’ The Misfit said, ‘if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life.’” (p. 10). When he shoots the grandmother, the Misfit becomes the good man that the grandmother said was hard to find. He is the good man because he helped her achieve grace by ending her life.
I am unsure of why Athena feels so strongly in helping Odysseus so much. My idea is that it is because Athena is the god of war strategy and wisdom and Odysseus single handedly won the war for Helen and she feels that he deserves to go home because he is so clever in his war strategy. She even helps him get off the island where Calypso is keeping him prisoner because she has falling in love with him. Athena has went out of her way to help Odysseus and his family even though “all the gods pitied him, except Poseidon, Who stormed against the godlike hero until he finally reached his own native land.” (pg2 line 25-27) Poseidon was the only one of the gods that didn’t like Odysseus because he had blinded his son the cyclops, but no one had gone out of their way so much to help him, then Athena. In Book 5 Athena and all the rest of the gods except for Poseidon gathered to Olympus to discuss the fate for Odysseus.