Saying that he wasn’t praising Caesar also appeals to the audience because right now, they are hating Caesar. During the speech, he uses rhetorical irony, and attacks the ethos of Brutus. He constantly and sarcastically repeats that Brutus is an “honorable man”, after he puts Caesar’s image up each time. This key strategy makes the people question Brutus’s honor and character. Pathos is the appeal to the emotion, and is the most often used rhetorical strategy in both Brutus’s and Antony’s speech.
In one scene, after an argument with his wife, then partner, Tony yells at them from his bath, “Who put this thing together? ME! That’s who?” Who do I trust? ME!” As Tony continues to shout, the camera zooms out to a bird’s eye view of the scene, and Tony’s figure contrasts with the large room – it is in this scene that he begins to alienate those around him. The fatal flaw is often the most important convention in any tragic hero story; Tony’s flaw is his complex and volatile personality.
For example,Oedipus from Oedipus The King by Sophocles is a well thorough example of a tragic hero, as well as Okonkwo from Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe. Both characters are heroic and important people in their societies as well as admired by readers through the imagery of their action. However, the flaw that each of them have ruins their lives and drives them into pain. Oedipus is a mythical Greek king of a city named Thebes, he fulfills a prophecy that said he would kill his father, and thereby brings a disaster on his city and family. Okonkwo, on the other hand, is a wealthy and a well respected warrior of the Umofian clan, a lower Nigerian tribe who gives effort to develop into a powerful and successful person, nevertheless ends up self murdered and doomed as an evil spirit.
In Arthur Miller’s more complex world, a more complex tragic hero is needed. Indeed, a more complex hero is needed because Arthur Miller is also telling of his own tragic struggle through John Proctor. Aristotle gives four basic characteristics of a tragic hero: nobleness of birth, a tragic flaw, the hero’s downfall, and the anagnorisis, or the realization by the protagonist that his downfall was his own doing. There are other accepted requirements as well, such as the hero suffering more than he
Shakespeare presents Antony as a highly complex character with two sides to his personality: a man hopelessly in love with the Egyptian Queen Cleopatra, and a great military leader of the Roman Empire. However, these two contradictory personalities cannot exist harmoniously with one another, as Antony becomes more entangled with Egypt and Cleopatra his leadership status suffers. Thus, from a militaristic Roman perspective, Shakespeare portrays a decline in Antony from his high leadership status. To represent the decline of Antony, Shakespeare first presents to the audience his high status so that they may fully understand his decline. At many points during Act III Antony’s qualities of a great leader are dramatically demonstrated to the audience through framing- not through Antony’s dialogue or his actions, but through the way he is presented through how others speak of him.
Macbeth is a Tragic Hero A tragic hero must be a great personality with a flaw in character that leads to his downfall at the end of the tragedy. Macbeth’s flaw is his "vaulted ambition." He is also a villain in the case that he is emerged in the blood of Banquo and Macduff's family. But Macbeth ends up as a tragic hero. Shakespeare developed Macbeth's role through three stages.
Sometimes the tragic hero suffers from hubris, like know-it-all Oedipus. The goddess Nemesis waits until just the proper moment to tap his arrogance, blind him to the reality around him, and thereby lead him to his own destruction. But note: What separates the tragic hero from the arrogant fool who suffers the same fate is the sheer magnitude of his gifts, and thus the depth of the abyss into which he falls, and the spirit with which he
In all Greek tragedies, and other tragedies the main character ends up dying. There are three characters that could qualify as the tragic hero in Antigone, but I believe that one of the three characters is more worthy of the title. The three characters that I believe could be the tragic hero in the play Antigone are Antigone, Polynices, or Creon. Creon could be the tragic hero in Antigone because just like Antigone he also has a tragic flaw. Creon’s tragic flaw is that he is arrogant, and does not like to listen to other people’s opinion.
The tragic hero possesses the following characteristics: 1) Flaw or error of judgment (hamartia) Note the role of justice and/or revenge in the judgments. 2) A reversal of fortune (peripeteia) brought about because of the hero's error in judgment. 3) The discovery or recognition that the reversal was brought about by the hero's own actions (anagnorisis). 4) Excessive Pride (hubris). 5) The character's fate must be greater than deserved.
In regards to their leaders murder, the Romans turned against the senate, there for Antony’s speech was more persuading than Brutus’s. Antony’s speech uses ethos and pathos to evoke the heavyhearted emotions from the Roman citizens. Antony walks up to present himself with Caesar in his arms “I come to bury Caesar not to praise him” (6). He is preaching to the people that he was not Caesar’s friend. He knows Caesar was not a trustworthy leader but he deserves to be noticed for his great intentions, Antony wants the Romans to feel mournful towards Caesar.