... by a tragedy, it is important to examine the differences between classical Greek and modern English examples. The two examples that are reflected on are Sophocles' Oedipus the King and E. Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman. The characters of each are starkly different, but suffer similar sorrowful fates. What exactly is ... ability to recognize in ourselves a similar possibility of error (Kennedy & Gioia, 2013). The key difference between the tragic heroes in each example is Oedipus was a King, a figure of nobility, and Willy was an average man. Herein lies one of the most notable diffe...

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