The play Antigone by Sophocles explains how a powerful king and princess both experience a major downfall due to their respective character flaw. Even though both Antigone and Creon are considered tragic characters, Creon is the character who experiences the more intense downfall. Antigone’s tragic flaw is being too passionate while Creon’s tragic downfall is being too full of pride to make wise decisions. At the end of the play, Creon is still alive and has to deal with the loss of his wife and son thus, making him the most tragic character. Antigone’s tragic flaw is that she is too passionate and strong-willed for her own good.
Cyrano once and again proves his worthiness for someone like Roxane, yet would rather make her happy than have happiness himself. In addition to his gallant ways, he has surely won the respected title of hero, for who better than the subtle companion, Cyrano? It is his bravery, his honor, and his pure love that makes Cyrano such an outstanding character¾the best kind of hero to grace the literary world in years past, and presumably, years to come as
Edgar Allan Poe’s Life and the Unsavory Rumors Surrounding it Edgar Allan Poe’s life was made up almost entirely from when is father abandons his family in 1810. To “Elizabeth Poe dying of tuberculosis in 1811.” Poe lived a long healthy life while everyone died around him. Even his own wife and cousin Virginia Clemm died of tuberculosis after being married to him, at the age of 13, in 1847. Many rumors surrounding Edgar Allan Poe have come to light as the years pass, but these rumors about his public life, Private life, and his works did and still do confuse many because nothing was recorded about his life. The beginning of Poe’s life was full of rumors spread by him and others at school, place of business, and other means, “everything
Jay Gatsby – A Man With A Dream Greatness is defined as being remarkable or exceptionally outstanding. It is often debatable as to whether or not a human should be considered this. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby’s character is one that readers may interpret in different ways. Gatsby expressed his desire to change his life style by becoming first mate to millionaire Dan Cody. Furthermore, he joined the military, working to show that he could excel at anything that he desired to.
In John Dryden’s poem ‘Palamon and Arcite’ we are introduced to the character of Theseus. He is portrayed as the archetypal hero, strong, brave and skilful. Dryden exclaims ‘Force he conqur’d,then by Love’ this quotation show the audience that Theseus was a man who was not only very courageous for taking over a country, but admirable for not abusing the power that he received. Instead a woman from the country that he had taken over fell in love with it despite that. This reinforces the belief that he was not a crude leader, but in fact are very likable one with a lovable
In his view, the end to political instability justifies the means no matter how shady they may be. He states, “Many have imagined republics and principalities that have never been seen or known to exist in reality. For there is such a difference between the way men live and the way they ought to live.... because anyone who determines to act in all circumstances the part of a good man must come to ruin among so many who are not good.” (Machiavelli p.186) Many of the virtues advocated for in The Prince are apparent in Claudius’ character from William Shakespeare’s play, Hamlet. Hamlet tells of the various activities that take place during a questionable shift of royal power in Denmark. It is the acquisition and maintenance of this power that shows just how Machiavellian Claudius’ character is in the play.
Creon is sorry for what he was done, he repents, but it is already too late. He only finds true justice when everything he cared for was gone. Creon’s tragic flaw was that he was resolute; he did not want Polynieces to be buried. He received multiple warnings that this would lead to his downfall. He was put into the position of King.
Voltaire shows how Candide slowly realizes this logic when he encounters constant conflict and disaster after leaving the Baron’s castle and his old “perfect world”. Candide sees how almost everyone in this world acts selfishly only to reap benefits for themselves and take away from their fellow humanity. Some people probably think that Voltaire may come off as a pessimistic, but he really is just trying to show how foolish optimistic people and corrupt religion can be when you live in a world that constantly challenges you and makes you suffer so much. Essentially Voltaire is trying to tell us that the happiness of humanity is impossible, because the only “real” life is the life where you endure good things and bad things and not the life where you live in the best of all worlds and have no problems and everything is handed to
This is his only “sin” to be shown throughout the poem and he does pay for it. This small token that will supposedly save his life causes him a knick of a cut from the King who turns out to be Lord Bertilak under the command of Morgan le Fay. This whole thing was a ruse in order to strike fear upon Queen Guinevere. Sir Gawain is deeply hurt that he has failed and proclaims to use the girdle as a reminder of his sins so that he shall never fall victim to them again. Gawain is hardest upon himself because he has such faith within higher powers and he felt as if he owed them his forever servitude.
His religious responsibilities, military glories and raising the prestige, and wealth, of Egypt through conquest, ultimately giving him the perfect balance and platform to attain the status of a ‘great’ pharaoh. Therefore, Edward Abbey’s quote, “Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best,” is not applicable to the reign of Thutmosis lll because of his achievement of this balance. Thutmosis lll’s power and dominance over the Egyptian empire was largely due to his strong military background. The concept of power, in the eyes of Thutmosis III, was a positive means of achieving stability and prosperity for his empire.