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	trag.hero.htm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		A tragic hero is a person of noble birth with heroic or potentially heroic qualities.
		Because the tragic hero simply cannot accept a diminished view of the self and because of some personality flaw, the hero fails in this epic struggle against fate.
		Tragic doom is both public (the State) and private (a family tragedy as well) and usually sexual transgressions are involved in some way.
	www.csus.edu /indiv/s/santorar/engl190v/trag.hero.htm (300 words)

	Tragic hero - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In a complex Aristotelian tragedy, the hero undergoes a peripetia, or a turn of fate that leaves him or her destitute, followed by anagnorisis, a point when the hero comes to the realization of his or her errors.
		Sophocles' Oedipus Rex was regarded by Aristotle as the greatest example of a tragic hero because Oedipus discovered the truth not by chance or divine agency (such as Homer or Euripides), but by his own relentless investigation, a trait shown embedded in himself from the beginning of the play.
		In the Modernist era, a new kind of tragic hero was synthesized as a reaction to the English Renaissance, The Age of Enlightenment, and Romanticism.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tragic_hero (1262 words)

	Anakin Skywalker: The Archetypal Tragic Hero
		The tragic hero falls, unexpectedly, from a high position (a place of glory, honor, or joy), and as a consequence, the collective audience is left in awe; awe at the depths in which the tragic hero is suddenly plunged.
		However, it is necessary that the tragic hero should have so much of greatness, that in his error and fall, the audience may be vividly conscious of the possibilities of human nature.
		As the tragic flaw, as well as these misreadings continue, new conflicts and complications arise which bring about the gradual alienation, or death of all forms of support for the tragic hero, so that by the end, he must face the opposing forces, and the responsibility for his actions, alone.
	anakinskywalker.homeip.net /TragicHero.php (3044 words)

	TragedyLecture
		The hero falls unexpectedly from a high place, a place of glory, or honor, or joy, and as a consequence, we feel that kind of awe at the depths to which he is suddenly plunged.
		Such exceptional suffering and calamity, then, affecting the hero, and generally extending far beyond him, so as to make the whole scene a scene of woe, are essential ingredients in tragedy, and the chief sources of the tragic emotions, and especially of pity.
		A sense of inevitability begins to advance as we watch the tragic hero alienating his allies and closest supporters, until he is all alone and with his back to the wall in the 5th act.
	global.cscc.edu /engl/264/TragedyLex.htm (3284 words)

	AcademicDB - Is Macbeth a Tragic Hero?
		In Shakespeare's play "Macbeth" he casts his main character as a tragic hero, a tragic hero is a person of high or noble birth who is virtuous and through some tragic flaw brings about their own downfall and gains wisdom through their suffering.
		Macbeth is a tragic hero who through his life is forced to make decisions that affect and shape his future.
		In the beginning of the play, we see Macbeth as a hero, fighting for King and country, and it is a shock to us when he turns his back on all he believes in and plots to kill his King.
	www.academicdb.com /is_macbeth_a_tragic_hero_3590 (262 words)

	Ying hung ho hon (1987) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		In Tragic Hero, the protagonist is Chow and his family suffers a lot because of his criminal (past) life and there is one very great scene involving Chow and his wife and how they express each others' feelings on screen before the dramatic incident.
		Tragic Hero, like Rich and Famous, is written by Stephen Shiu and veteran Manfred Wong the latter having written also such HK classics like Ching Siu Tung's wonderful wuxia tale Duel to the Death (1983) and Lam Nai Choi's seriously demented and ultra violent Killer's Nocturn (1987) to name just a few.
		Tragic Hero like Rich and Famous are both gangster films depicting big bosses, their servants, friends and their relations but still I don't think these films (nor the other original and thus noteworthy HK action dramas) copy or imitate Western films, like Francis Coppola's The Godfather saga, of the same genre at all.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0094356 (1107 words)

	Free Essay Shakespeare - Tragic Hero
		These qualities were a tragic flaw, or harmartia, they all were from a noble class, with very human personalities, and they all face their tragedy with dignity.
		While the tragic flaw is the key element in a tragedy, the tragic hero’s social status is also of high importance.
		The tragic hero mirrors everyone, positive traits and faults, to point a finger and emplore all to beware; if horrible events took place due to a character flaw in a genuinely good character, the same thing could repeat in an audience member’s life as well (Desjardens).
	www.echeat.com /essay.php?t=25476 (851 words)

	PlanetPapers - Macbeth - a tragic hero
		A tragic hero who, because of a flaw, tumbles from a well-respected hero to a cowardless murderer.
		Like Macbeth, a tragic hero has choices, a conscience of right from wrong and in the end must die, because to live would create mayhem and a feeling that his actions were justified.
		The tragic plot of a once worthy and loyal soldier to the king, who encounters a supernatural evil and because of a flaw, is led slowly to his death.
	www.planetpapers.com /Assets/3710.php (2185 words)

	The Amazing Technicolor Goldfish - Lord Jim as a Tragic Hero
		Jim is a tragic hero because his spirit is not crushed when his greatness is, he posesses a tragic flaw which causes his downfall, and he wins a moral victory through his death.
		Furthermore, Jim is a tragic hero because his downfall is caused by a tragic flaw.
		Jim is a tragic hero because his spirit is not crushed when his greatness is, he possesses a tragic flaw which causes his downfall, and he wins a moral victory through his death.
	www.technicolorgoldfish.net /lordjim.html (942 words)

	Free Essays - MacBeth As A Tragic Hero
		Is Macbeth the tragic hero of the play "Macbeth?" This question may seem to be redundant; however, not all of Shakespeare’s Tragedies are named after their tragic heroes.
		For example, Julius Caesar is not the tragic hero of "Julius Caesar." A tragic hero must conform to a set of characteristics which evolved all the way from ancient to medieval times.
		Philosophers, such as Aristotle, believed that the audience must feel sympathy for the tragic hero; otherwise, it was not considered a good play because the audience could not empathize with the tragic hero.(Abram 190) Macbeth has a very good quality which his courage.
	www.freeessays.tv /a1734.htm (728 words)

	Brett's Footnotes¹: The Tragic Hero
		It gives the story an incredible punch, to have Selden arrive on her doorstep the morning after her (admittedly ambiguous) suicide; he came seeking to propose marriage, and instead finds her beauty coldly preserved in death.
		It would have maintained the questions of destiny and fate, and provided the hero with a different out in choosing oblivion over a lifetime of painful reminiscence.
		Even Achilles, the greatest hero of his time, died in battle to assure his immortality in verse.
	www.brettdouville.com /mt-archives/2005/10/the_tragic_hero.html (864 words)

	The Dislocated Tragic Hero in Latvian Drama
		The Aristotelian tragic hero, even while opposing the established world order, must be designed in a way that forces the audiences to identify with him.
		Only the tragic hero refuses to make such a compromise, and Caupo is doomed not because he has "a tragic flaw" but because he refuses to accept a ready-made fate.
		The tragic hero must also realize that the consequences he suffers are for having made the wrong choice.
	www.lituanus.org /1983_4/83_4_01.htm (3744 words)

	Hero - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		For example, the circumstances of the hero's conception are unusual; an attempt is made by a powerful male at his birth to kill him; he is spirited away; reared by foster-parents in a far country.
		"Hero" or "heroine" is sometimes used to simply describe the protagonist of a story, or the love interest, a usage which can conflict with the more-than-human expectations of heroism.
		In modern movies, the hero is often simply an ordinary person in extraordinary circumstances, who, despite the odds being stacked against him or her, typically prevails in the end.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hero (1457 words)

	The True Tragic Hero in Sophocles' Antigone (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Another aspect of a tragic hero is an unwavering course of action, most likely caused by their flaw, that brings about their demise and the demise of those around them.
		Since the tragic hero has been proven to be Antigone, her choice to bury Polyneices is what the play revolves around.
		In closing, upon a close analyses of the play Antigone the tragic hero would have to be Antigone herself, since she has all the aspects that a tragic hero must have.
	www.onlineessays.com /essays/literature/lit028.php (1024 words)

	WowEssays.com - Tennyson, Carlyle And The Tragic Hero
		WowEssays.com - Tennyson, Carlyle And The Tragic Hero
		Tennyson hints of traditional lofty Greek tragic heroes when the Lady of Shalott is warned of a curse, as Oedipus Rex (among other tragic heroes) are given hints or warnings as to their fates; She has heard a whisper say, A curse is on her if she stay To look down to Camelot.
		Yet like all tragic heroes, the Lady of Shalott disregards the warning, cannot escape her fate, looks down upon Camelot and leaves her castle to join society and be recognized for who she is. Yet, she is sadly unrecognized.
	www.wowessays.com /dbase/ae3/tmw225.shtml (2021 words)

	Tragic Hero? - HERO GAMES Discussion Boards (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		I've had PCs who've been in groups that have 'failed' a mission one way or another (villain got away, heroes were defeated, item stolen and gone, etc.) in which we just had to regroup and either chase after or wait for this to be a subplot that was visited later.
		The Justice Foundation and the Oakland hero team (one I created to pseudo-mock the Champions and designed to be eliminated by Terror, Inc. later) met up with the PCs and went after VIPER, who decided to leave the area by then.
		In the case of the heroes who died in a failed attempt to save their kingdom...
	www.herogames.com /forums/showthread.php?t=18036 (4088 words)

	The Home Page - Anakin Skywalker is the Perfect Tragic Hero
		A tragic hero is good, though not perfect, and his fall results from what Aristotle calls "an act of
		The tragic hero's downfall is his own fault, not of some accident or criminal act.
		The tragic hero's downfall is not wholly deserved.
	anakinskywalker1.homestead.com /perfecttragichero.html (302 words)

	TRAGICHEROBy Nicky Baldrian
		Tragic Hero though don't rely on their image to get them gigs etc..
		Tragic Hero are a band that would very much suite a label like MTM, Kivel Records and Massacre Records.
		The members of Tragic Hero started off in the late eighties playing in various garage bands, playing cover songs "I met Erich in 1987 at North Texas State in Denton", explains Chuck Williams, "Erich was not a musician then, just a guy with a good rock look and a great set of pipes"
	www.geocities.com /strutterzine/TRAGICHEROINTERVIEW.htm (868 words)

	PlanetPapers - Tragic Hero
		Aristotle described a tragic hero as being a person who, through a flaw, in their own character, is brought from a high position and learns to “see the light” before their own destruction.
		Antigone, one of Oedipus and Jocasta’s daughters, is perceived as a tragic hero in the eyes of many for going against her uncle, Creon, the king of Thebes, when she buried her brother and lover, Polynices.
		In conclusion, Oedipus and Antigone are tragic heroes in the eyes of Aristotle.
	www.planetpapers.com /Assets/3815.php (844 words)

	Ratko Mladic (Mladić) - Tragic Hero
		Ratko Mladic: Tragic Hero is the first book-length study to appear in English about the controversial Serbian general, translated, edited and supplemented by Milo Yelesiyevich.
		Furthermore, Ratko Mladic: Tragic Hero presumes that the West has been acting against its own best interests by supporting Islamic fundamentalist terrorism in the former Yugoslavia, while at the same time attempting to prosecute General Mladic for alleged crimes for which there is still no proof, even after the passage of more than a decade.
		Ratko Mladic, Tragic Hero consists of an abridgment of Mr.
	www.apisgroup.org /tragichero (681 words)

	Macbeth - Tragic Hero or Tyrant -- Essay at LiteratureClassics.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		He said that the hero must be a man of higher than mortal worth that is exhibited as suffering a change in fortune from happiness to misery because of a mistaken act to which he is lead to by his harmatia or tragic flaw.
		As Macbeth is a tragic hero, this is an essential element of his character.
		Here Macbeth is talked of as a Heroic warrior that 'brandished steel which smoked with bloody execution.' Both the Captain and Duncan acknowledge this and Duncan even comments 'O valiant cousin, worthy gentleman.' Further evidence of Macbeth's goodness is shown by his vacillation before the murder of King Duncan.
	www.literatureclassics.com /essays/371 (2383 words)

	The Tragic Hero - article by Charlotte Boyett-Compo
		Each of these heroes had something tragically engineered by the author to grab and hold the maternal instincts of her reader.
		Whether it was a spiritual or mental flaw; psychological or physical deformity, the hero suffered and had to be comforted by the heroine.
		Give the hero a flaw that will make the reader want to reach out, take him in her arms and hold him until his pain passes.
	www.dowse.com /articles/Hero.html (1260 words)

	Classics Network -- Essay -- King Lear as a tragic hero (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		On the one hand, there is A.C. Bradley, who takes the position that King Lear is a tragic hero because he demonstrates all the characteristics of a tragic hero as Bradley saw it.
		tragic hero, and more than that although there might appear to be comic elements in the play King Lear that the tragic element seem to outweigh the comic.
		intensity of the suffering that the tragic hero is undergoing.
	www.classicsnetwork.com /showessayprint.asp?IDNo=683 (1265 words)

	DVD Review - Rich And Famous / Tragic Hero (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		In "Tragic Hero," the sequel to this story, Chai is driven by revenge.
		Chinese triad movies are unparalleled in their display of violence and "Rich And Famous" and "Tragic Hero" are no exceptions to that rule.
		The framing is good, although "Tragic Hero" renders the letterboxed image slightly off center, moved towards the bottom of the screen.
	www.dvdreview.com /fullreviews/rich_and_famous___tragic_hero.shtml (920 words)

	Literary Terms for Tragic Heroes page
		The tragic hero will most effectively evoke both our pity and terror if he is neither thoroughly good nor thoroughly evil but a combination of both.
		The tragic effect will be stronger if the hero is "better than we are," in that he is of higher than ordinary moral worth.
		Such a man is shown as suffering a change in fortune from happiness to misery because of a mistaken act, to which he is led by his hamartia (his "effort of judgment") or, as it is often literally translated, his tragic flaw.
	www.teachtheteachers.org /projects/JZarro2/process2.html (228 words)

	Tragic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The tragic hero is also doomed for failure because he, or she, has a tragic flaw.
		The positive attributes of the tragic hero ensure that the memory of the hero to lives on in fame.
		There is a decent definition of what a tragic hero is, and the student has chosen at least two tragic heroes, one from literature and one from modern times.
	www.studentpersonalpages.loyola.edu /~gwolfmeyer (802 words)

	Oedipus as a True Tragic Hero -- Essay at LiteratureClassics.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Obviously, Oedipus is thr tragic hero of Oedipus the King.
		Now a tragic hero, he makes a mistake, and then he finds out what it is? And we know what it is which is part of the Irony?
		Aeschylus work did not follow the “tragic journey” as in the play "Agamemnon", Agamemnon was killed by Clytamenestra and it is his son Orestes that avenges his death.
	www.literatureclassics.com /essays/768 (946 words)

	Who is the realy Tragic hero
		A tragic hero is one that is born noble and good by birth, who tries to change or bring about his fate and falls victim to the circumstances, and who brings about the downfall of others.
		In conclusion, Creon is the tragic hero in “Antigone.
		Antigone is not the tragic hero because the only person that she affected was herself.
	www.doingmyhomework.com /show_essay/6569.html (134 words)

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