Essays on Tragic Hero

Is John Proctor of Arthur Miller’s The Crucible a tragic hero? To first answer this question we need to determine what a tragic hero is and who John Proctor is. After these analyzations we must ask if John Proctor meets the certain criteria of this...

The novel Moby Dick by Herman Melville is seen as a classic; some may even say that it is the best piece of American Literature. Despite the slow sales when it was first published, Melville’s famous novel has grown exponentially in popularity. The novel contains...

Ambition transforms tragic heroes into villains. Ambition is wanting to achieve something higher then what they have already achieved. A tragic hero is a hero that has lost something dear to them, something that holds great value to them. There are three factors that make...

An individual’s morals come from the way they evolve through challenges and events. This is shown in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment (1866). In the novel, Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov is both a villain and a hero. Raskolnikov is considered a villain because he killed a...

Satan is the most heroic subject that was ever chosen for a poem, and the execution is as perfect as the design is lofty. He was the first of the created beings, who, for endeavouring to be equal with the highest, and to divide the...

The idea of what makes an acceptable hero in literature today is vastly different to what it was in ancient times. Analyzing Oedipus Rex and Station Eleven displays an excellent example of how the idea of a hero has changed in writings over time. Sophocles...

When someone’s journey comes to an end, it is a tragedy. Many people want to carry a story with them after they have passed. Most people want to leave something memorable behind, people want to be seen as a good person, perhaps a hero. According...

Every tragedy in history has a tragic hero. Now a tragic hero always has the potential for greatness but is destined to fail. They also meet a tragic death and face it with honor. The Salem Witch Trials began in the spring of 1692, in...

The tragic actionist death of Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman causes suffering to others. Arthur Miller’s 1949 play showcases the mental instability of a man with a failing dream. Due to this his wife and kids are left baffled and appalled. Although his...

Oedipus murders his own father and marries his mother. Which is exactly what he had tried so hard not to do for years, but it was his fate. However, he is still widely considered a hero because he is courageous, has a quest, a weakness,...