Dire Ambition – Mr Waugh's Level 1 English Class

The most important characters are those who challenge us Intro: Moral message through the poor decisions made by Lear caused by his fatal flaw; hamartia Actions speak louder than words Paragraph 1: “What can you …

Connecting Idea: “The Tragic Hero” Unifying elements of Tragedy Intro: A good tragedy has become a passage to show its audience watching a way to take our minds off of our own lives and draw …

Analyse how the traditional conventions of tragedy are manipulated through the use of visual and/or verbal features in the film Gladiator by Ridley Scott The movie ‘Gladiator’ is a tragedy created by Ridley Scott used …

Hero must be physically or spiritually wounded by his experiences – often resulting in death: Maximus has been broken down throughout this movie starting from where he has been ordered to be executed by his …

Gladiator thrusts the audience right into the middle of Maximus’ story; he already has a family, already the commander of the legion. It isn’t on a journey of discovery, he has already found who he …

Protagonist – A character of which the story is centered around Characteristic – A trait that a character possesses Inciting Incident – A point in the plot that puts the protagonist in the

Knowledge of the Aristotelian tragic hero reveals much about Shakespeare’s intentions in the tragedy King Lear The tragic hero is a staple to the quintessential tragedy according to philosopher Aristotle which follows a protagonist on …

The Elizabethan/Jacobean world view – Back in the Elizabethan times, they believed in strange concepts such as Aristotle’s solar system where all planets and the sun revolved around earth, and the great chain of being …

The storm – This spectacle is used to represent the turning point for Lear, the point at which Lear turns into his downfall and rabbit-hole of insanity as his daughters are all against him and …