Hamlet: To Be Or Not To Be A Tragic Hero
The phrase “there is a hero to every story” has been heard numerous times, but can this be true if the hero dies in the story? It all depends on the definition of a hero. According to the tragic hero definitions of Abram’s A Glossary of Literary Terms,Aristotle’s theory of a tragic hero, and a combination of Merriam Webster dictionaries, a person can be classified as a hero even if he does not live to see the good that he has done or accomplished in his lifetime. This type of character is more correctly called a tragic hero. In the play, Hamlet, written by William Shakespeare, Hamlet fits the mold of a tragic hero perfectly as he meets all of the requirements to be a tragic hero which are: A person of noble birth who occupies a powerful enough position to make choices which involve great numbers of people, decisions which can bring catastrophe to an entire kingdom. He also has to have a trait of goodness, but he cannot be perfect. The tragic hero also must possess some sort of flaw due to pride or his character and the destruction of this character is due to this flaw. The tragic hero must have a final moment of potential self-awareness, be a man of godlike prowess, and the his goodness must come to be honored as divinity in
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Approximate Word count = 2592
Approximate Pages = 10 (250 words per page double spaced)
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