Every tragic play must have a tragic hero. The tragic hero must possess many good traits, as well as one flaw, which eventually leads to his downfall. A tragic hero must be brave and noble. A tragic hero doesn't need to be good nor does he/she need to die. If every action is controlled by a hero's ...

The first reading of Euripides' Hippolytus generates an irresistible urge to see Hippolytus as the tragic protagonist. After all, he was the one who suffered all his life under the stigma of being an illegitimate child and died believing his father was a just and kind man though he was not. And ...

A tragedy is a play, story, or other literary work, which arouses terror or pity by a series of misfortunes or sad events. The plot is usually about the downfall of a great man. Many take it a step farther and say that the main character or the person who experiences the downfall brings it upon hi...