Hello all, I'm pretty new here but not to writing papers lol. My teacher has given us a assignment to write a drama research paper and I picked to discuss and explain why Oedipus was a tragic hero. The paper is expected to be 750 words but so far, I only have 302 words so I need guidance and reassurance to help fill in the void. I'll post my essay below and tell me what I need to do in grammatical structure and what additional points I need in able to make a successful written essay.
Drama Research Paper
According to Aristotle, the ideal tragic hero was a man whose character was a mixture between bad and good, but with good predominance. This definition is usually summarized as a "basic noble man with a tragic flaw" and Oedipus certainly fitted that module. Oedipus was a concerned, caring king whose people admired, loved and trusted him, but he has an agile, aggressive temper and fails to think in some critical situations. As a result, he commit some terrible crimes, destroyed his personal world, and dragged some innocent people along with his own misery.
Aristotle has stated the outline that the characteristics of a tragic hero which is a "man who is superior to the average in some sort of way". In Oedipus, he is superior not because of the social oligarchy that he places him in, but also he is clever and basically the only person that could solve the Sphinx's riddle but at the same time, a tragic hero must extract the attributes of both fear and pity. A character with both negative and positive characteristics is more compelling than a character that only has good and positive characteristics and Oedipus definitely has some imperfections. While he was a smart person, he was completely oblivious to the truth that he married his mother (Jocasta), killed his father (King Laius), and refuses to believe what Tiresias says to him (I say to you and your most dearly loved as wrapped together in together in a hideous sin, blind to the horror of it 428), and although a good nurturing father, he unknowingly birth children in incest. A tragic hero agonizes because of his own weakness which was his arrogance and superiority complex towards others.
Hey shaddyraddy,
If you want to expand your essay, it might work to introduce Oedipus in a more general way (he comes from greek mythologie etc.) so that the reader who is unfamiliar with the subject understands your thesis. Furthermore, you could give a few examples when a statement is made to avoid assumptions. + you don't always say that you are giving an example.
According to Aristotle, the ideal tragic hero was a man whose character was a mixture between bad and good, but with good predominance. This definition is usually summarized as a "basic noble man with a tragic flaw" and Oedipus certainly fitted that module. Oedipus was a concerned, caring king whose people admired, loved and trusted him, but he has an agile, aggressive temper and fails to think in some critical situations (example - of the link between the failure to think and the terrible crimes). As a result, he commit some terrible crimes, destroyed his personal world, and dragged some innocent people along with his own misery.
Aristotle has stated the outline that the characteristics of a tragic hero which is a "man who is superior to the average in some sort of way". In Oedipus, he is superior not because of the social oligarchy that he places him in, but also he is clever and basically the only person that could solve the Sphinx's riddle but at the same time, a tragic hero must extract the attributes of both fear and pity. A character with both negative and positive characteristics is more compelling than a character that only has good and positive characteristics and Oedipus definitely has some imperfections (example). While he was a smart person, he was completely oblivious to the truth that he married his mother (Jocasta), killed his father (King Laius), and refuses to believe what Tiresias says to him (I say to you and your most dearly loved as wrapped together in together in a hideous sin, blind to the horror of it 428), and although a good nurturing father, he unknowingly birth children in incest. A tragic hero agonizes because of his own weakness which was his arrogance and superiority complex towards others.
as a conclusion i would reflect back to Aristoteles thesis.
