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Tragic hero characterization in Agamemnon and Antigone
Title: Tragic hero characterization in Agamemnon and Antigone
Category: Literature / English
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Tragic hero characterization in Agamemnon and Antigone
"Pity and Awe, reconciliation, exaltation and a sense of emotion purged and purified thereby"1. As this quote from Aristotle's Poetics states, a tragedy must arouse feelings of pity and fear, thus producing a catharsis of these emotions in the audience. In order to arouse the emotions of the audience or reader, writers must produce characters that are known as tragic heroes. A tragic hero is characterized as the hero of a tragedy who is usually …showed first 75 words of 1560 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1560 total…the story because Agamemnon does not. Sophocles proved that there can be two opposing tragic heroes in a tragedy where neither side wins. These writers produced characters that compare and contrast.
1 Aristotle
2 Agamemnon by Aeschylus; translated by Robert Fitzgerald; pg.133 lns794-797
3 Antigone by Sophocles; translated by Robert Fitzgerald and Dudley Fitts pg. 527 lns 5 Scene 4
4 Agamemnon by Aeschylus; translated by Robert Fitzgerald; pg159 ln 1370-1371
5 Antigone by Sophocles; translated by Robert Fitzgerald and Dudley Fitts pg.495 ln. 35
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