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Comedy, Courtly Love, Drama, Fiction, Novel, Poetry, Protagonist, Short Story, Tragedy, 1984, A Raisin in The Sun, Animal Farm, Beowulf, Fahrenheit 451, Frankenstein, George Orwell, Hamlet, Into The Wild, Lord of The Flies, Macbeth, A Modest Proposal, All Quiet on The Western Front, Allegory, Antigone, Between The World and Me.
Ogidi, Anambra and Stratford, England, nearly four thousand three hundred and twenty two miles apart, are the birthplaces of two extremely different authors both culturally and age wise. Although very different, these authors, Chinua Achebe, author of Things Fall Apart, and William Shakespeare, author of Macbeth, both wrote popular stories in which the protagonist’s downfall … Read more
In any tragedy, the tragic hero is a righteous character who is destined for downfall, suffering, or defeat. Three main theories of the tragic hero are the Aristotelian model, the Shakespearean model, and the modern tragic hero. Each model has five defining characteristics, which are nobility, hamartia, downfall, anagnorisis, and suffering. In the Shakespearean mode … Read more