https://padlet.com/jennecan/5v1ldfaijjb6 For each essay, locate one main argument and support it with a quotation from the essay! en-us 2017-02-27 13:30:30 UTC 2017-02-27 13:58:10 UTC hello@padlet.com jennecan https://padlet.com/jennecan/5v1ldfaijjb6/wish/156389239 2017-02-27 13:32:30 UTC https://padlet.com/jennecan/5v1ldfaijjb6/wish/156389239 https://padlet.com/jennecan/5v1ldfaijjb6/wish/156392455 The essay is about the characteristics of a tragic hero including tragic hero downfalls. Also, this essay shows characteristics that we can find within ourselves. In Shakespearean plays, othellos flaw is jealously, macbeth's is greed and etc. 
"His tragic characters are made of stuff we find within ourselves and within the persons who surround us. ]]> 2017-02-27 13:41:46 UTC https://padlet.com/jennecan/5v1ldfaijjb6/wish/156392455 https://padlet.com/jennecan/5v1ldfaijjb6/wish/156393500 This essay goes into depth about the comparison between a tragic hero and a common man as we could find all of these flaws within ourselves, referring to ourselves as the "common man."
"tragedy is the consequence of a man's total compulsion to evaluate himself justly, his destruction in the attempt posits a wrong or an evil in his environment.  ]]> 2017-02-27 13:45:16 UTC https://padlet.com/jennecan/5v1ldfaijjb6/wish/156393500 https://padlet.com/jennecan/5v1ldfaijjb6/wish/156394223 This essay explains the history behind a tragic hero and how the characteristics are determined. They are found throughout history and philosophy using the philosophers Aristotle and Jean- Jacques Rousseau. 
"Tragic drama, then, is related to philosophy, and it is not an accident that the Greek tragedies..... distrust the insights of dramatics, for philosophers usually like well-defined terms and consistent rational arguments."]]> 2017-02-27 13:47:39 UTC https://padlet.com/jennecan/5v1ldfaijjb6/wish/156394223 https://padlet.com/jennecan/5v1ldfaijjb6/wish/156394357
Argument: The ultimate power in the tragic world is a moral order.

Quote: "That which keeps the evil man prosperous, makes him succeed, even permits him to exist, is the good in him".]]> 2017-02-27 13:48:01 UTC https://padlet.com/jennecan/5v1ldfaijjb6/wish/156394357 https://padlet.com/jennecan/5v1ldfaijjb6/wish/156395289
Argument: Tragedy, then, is the consequence of a man's total compulsion to evaluate himself justly.

Quote: "For, if it is true to say that in essence the tragic hero is intent upon claiming his whole die as a personality, and if this struggle must be total and without reservation, then it automatically demonstrates the indestructible will of a man to achieve his humanity".]]> 2017-02-27 13:50:36 UTC https://padlet.com/jennecan/5v1ldfaijjb6/wish/156395289 https://padlet.com/jennecan/5v1ldfaijjb6/wish/156396946
Argument: The destruction of the body is, however, often accompanied by such an enlargement of spirit that, no matter how awful the consequences of the error, the hero has, we feel, in a way triumphed over them and subjected them by his greatness of mind.

Quote: The pain which he undergoes is often partly self-inflicted, for he willfully violates an existing code. He insists on espressing himself, even though he must suffer for his self-assertion".]]> 2017-02-27 13:54:30 UTC https://padlet.com/jennecan/5v1ldfaijjb6/wish/156396946