... to live falsely again. Among these three works, there is the possibility of other tragic heroes hidden amidst the central struggle of Oedipus, Creon, and Nora. In Oedipus the King, there really is no other character that qualifies to be a tragic hero, for no one else truly embodies a flaw, a downfall, and a catharsis. The play centralizes itself around the tragic plight of Oedipus and a second tragic hero would steal from him his ... ability to inflict the significance of the tragedy. In Antigone, Antigone perhaps embodies ... ...

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... broach and then leaves. Oedipus is your classic tragic hero. At the start of the play he is portrayed as a heroic individual, "it presents Oedipus as the great king, the solo hope of Thebes, himself so remote from the cause of the play, (Greek Tragedy -pg. 177), and this is to create a sense of tragedy when the hero eventually falls, "it builds up the tragedy when the character of Oedipus, in preparation for the end (Greek Tragedy ... -, pg. 177)." Aristotle believed the characters within tragedies ... ...

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... Hamlet is more often than not seen as the "hero" of the play with whom the audience most relates and because of this I feel that Hamlet having sexual feelings for his mother distorts the heroic persona established in previous scenes. A common interpretation of the "Closet scene" often used in modern productions of the play does portray Hamlet as having an oedipal desire for his mother. Zeffirelli (1990) interprets this ... and Claudius as well as his own "lust" for his mother. In fact critic Raman Selden (Hamlet's word play and the Oedipus complex, 1988) states that, "His passionate and e...

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