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Thursday, March 21, 2019

Comparative Character Analysis of Classical Vs. Modern Tragic Protagoni

Comparative Character Analysis of Classical Vs. Modern sad Protagonists.A fighter/ heroine is described as the principal male/ womanish cause in a literary or dramatic drop dead or the central figure in an event, period, or movement. The classic tragical hero was defined by Aristotle in the fourth century as, somebody who is highly renowned and prosperous (LATWP, 639), suggesting that there is a natural indemnify ordering and proportion of traits within the gentlemans gentleman being that if violated, produces calamity (LATWP, 639). The deem goes on to define classical tragedy as one that involves the fatal destruction of a noble person by means of character flaw, usually a disproportionate measure of a specific human attribute such as pride, jealousy or indecision (LATWP, 639).On the other hand, another type of tragic hero exists, the modern tragic hero. This type of hero is a product of a clash amidst the individual and the social environment. Arthur Miller, the famous playwright said, each person has a chosen image of self and position, tragedy results when the characters environment denies the fulfillment of this self concept. (LATWP, 640). This is a contrast from Aristotles classic tragic hero because the hero is no longer born into nobility but gains stature in the action of pitting self against cosmos, and the tragedy becomes, the disaster inherent in being torn away from our chosen image of what and who we are in this world. (LATWP, 640).In the tragic play named after it...

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