Faster access than browser!
27 relations: A Song of Ice and Fire, Antigone (Sophocles play), Aristotle, Classical Greece, Creon, Drama, Fear, Game of Thrones, Hamartia, Honour, Hubris, Human error, Irony, Michael Corleone, Oedipus Rex, Patrice Pavis, Pity, Poetics (Aristotle), Polynices, Prosperity, Protagonist, The Godfather (film series), Things Fall Apart, Thyestes, Tragedy, Villain, Warcraft.
A Song of Ice and Fire
A Song of Ice and Fire is a series of epic fantasy novels by the American novelist and screenwriter George R. R. Martin.
New!!: Tragic hero and A Song of Ice and Fire · See more »
Antigone (Sophocles play)
Antigone (Ἀντιγόνη) is a tragedy by Sophocles written in or before 441 BC.
New!!: Tragic hero and Antigone (Sophocles play) · See more »
Aristotle
Aristotle (Ἀριστοτέλης Aristotélēs,; 384–322 BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher and scientist born in the city of Stagira, Chalkidiki, in the north of Classical Greece.
New!!: Tragic hero and Aristotle · See more »
Classical Greece
Classical Greece was a period of around 200 years (5th and 4th centuries BC) in Greek culture.
New!!: Tragic hero and Classical Greece · See more »
Creon
Creon (Κρέων, Kreōn) is a figure in Greek mythology best known as the ruler of Thebes in the legend of Oedipus.
New!!: Tragic hero and Creon · See more »
Drama
Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance: a play performed in a theatre, or on radio or television.
New!!: Tragic hero and Drama · See more »
Fear
Fear is a feeling induced by perceived danger or threat that occurs in certain types of organisms, which causes a change in metabolic and organ functions and ultimately a change in behavior, such as fleeing, hiding, or freezing from perceived traumatic events.
New!!: Tragic hero and Fear · See more »
Game of Thrones
Game of Thrones is an American fantasy drama television series created by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss.
New!!: Tragic hero and Game of Thrones · See more »
Hamartia
The term hamartia derives from the Greek ἁμαρτία, from ἁμαρτάνειν hamartánein, which means "to miss the mark" or "to err".
New!!: Tragic hero and Hamartia · See more »
Honour
Honour (or honor in American English, note) is the idea of a bond between an individual and a society, as a quality of a person that is both of social teaching and of personal ethos, that manifests itself as a code of conduct, and has various elements such as valor, chivalry, honesty, and compassion.
New!!: Tragic hero and Honour · See more »
Hubris
Hubris (from ancient Greek ὕβρις) describes a personality quality of extreme or foolish pride or dangerous overconfidence, often in combination with (or synonymous with) arrogance.
New!!: Tragic hero and Hubris · See more »
Human error
Human error has been cited as a primary cause contributing factor in disasters and accidents in industries as diverse as nuclear power (e.g., the Three Mile Island accident), aviation (see pilot error), space exploration (e.g., the Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster and Space Shuttle Columbia disaster), and medicine (see medical error).
New!!: Tragic hero and Human error · See more »
Irony
Irony, in its broadest sense, is a rhetorical device, literary technique, or event in which what appears, on the surface, to be the case, differs radically from what is actually the case.
New!!: Tragic hero and Irony · See more »
Michael Corleone
Michael Corleone is the main protagonist of Mario Puzo's novel The Godfather.
New!!: Tragic hero and Michael Corleone · See more »
Oedipus Rex
Oedipus Rex, also known by its Greek title, Oedipus Tyrannus (Οἰδίπους Τύραννος IPA), or Oedipus the King, is an Athenian tragedy by Sophocles that was first performed around 429 BC.
New!!: Tragic hero and Oedipus Rex · See more »
Patrice Pavis
Patrice Pavis (b. 1947) was Professor for Theatre Studies at the University of Kent in Canterbury (UK), where he retired at the end of the academic year 2015/16.
New!!: Tragic hero and Patrice Pavis · See more »
Pity
Pity is a sympathetic sorrow evoked by the suffering of others and is used in a comparable sense to compassion, condolence or empathy.
New!!: Tragic hero and Pity · See more »
Poetics (Aristotle)
Aristotle's Poetics (Περὶ ποιητικῆς; De Poetica; c. 335 BCDukore (1974, 31).) is the earliest surviving work of dramatic theory and first extant philosophical treatise to focus on literary theory in the West.
New!!: Tragic hero and Poetics (Aristotle) · See more »
Polynices
In Greek mythology, Polynices (Greek: Πολυνείκης, Polyneíkes - "manifold strife") was the son of Oedipus and Jocasta and the younger brother of Eteocles.
New!!: Tragic hero and Polynices · See more »
Prosperity
Prosperity is the state of flourishing, thriving, good fortune or successful social status.
New!!: Tragic hero and Prosperity · See more »
Protagonist
A protagonist In modern usage, a protagonist is the main character of any story (in any medium, including prose, poetry, film, opera and so on).
New!!: Tragic hero and Protagonist · See more »
The Godfather (film series)
The Godfather is an American film series that consists of three crime drama films directed by Francis Ford Coppola inspired by the novel of the same name by Italian American author Mario Puzo.
New!!: Tragic hero and The Godfather (film series) · See more »
Things Fall Apart
Things Fall Apart is a novel written by Nigerian author Chinua Achebe.
New!!: Tragic hero and Things Fall Apart · See more »
Thyestes
In Greek mythology, Thyestes (pronounced, Θυέστης) was the son of Pelops and Hippodamia.
New!!: Tragic hero and Thyestes · See more »
Tragedy
Tragedy (from the τραγῳδία, tragōidia) is a form of drama based on human suffering that invokes an accompanying catharsis or pleasure in audiences.
New!!: Tragic hero and Tragedy · See more »
Villain
A villain (also known as, "baddie", "bad guy", "evil guy", "heavy" or "black hat") is an "evil" character in a story, whether a historical narrative or, especially, a work of fiction.
New!!: Tragic hero and Villain · See more »
Warcraft
Warcraft is a franchise of video games, novels, and other media created by Blizzard Entertainment.
New!!: Tragic hero and Warcraft · See more »
Redirects here:
Tragic Hero, Tragic character, Tragic heroine.
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragic_hero
