Tragic Hero Quotes

• Tragic heroes are failed pragmatists. Their ends are unrealistic and their means are impractical.

  Adam Phillips

  Hero, Mean, Ends

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• El tipo de sufrimiento verdaderamente trágico es el que produce e insiste desafiantemente el propio héroe de modo que, en lugar de hacerle mejor, le hace peor y cuando muere no está reconciliado con la ley sino desafiante, es decir, condenado. Lear no es un héroe trágico, Otelo sí.

  W. H. Auden

  Hero, Law, Suffering

  "Forewords and Afterwords" by W. H. Auden, ("The Greeks and Us"), (p. 21), 1973.

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• The catastrophe of the tragic hero thus becomes the catastrophe of the fifth-century man; all his furious energy and intellectual daring drive him on to this terrible discovery of his fundamental ignorance - he is not the measure of all things but the thing measured and found wanting.

  Robert Fagles

  Hero, Ignorance, Men

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• El héroe trágico prefiere la muerte a la prudencia. El cómico prefiere jugar al truco a ganar. Sólo el villano juega realmente para ganar.

  Mason Cooley

  Hero, Winning, Play

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• Tragic heroes always moan when the gods take an interest in them, but it's the people the gods ignore who get the really tough deals

  Terry Pratchett

  Hero, People, Tough

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Mort: (Discworld Novel 4)”, p.16, Random House

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• Oh, cuidado, mi señor, con los celos; es el monstruo de ojos verdes, que se burla de la carne de la que se alimenta.

  William Shakespeare

  Celos, Envidia, Tragedia

  Otelo' (1602-4) acto 3, esc. 3, l. 165

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• If I was white I would have been like John Wayne... I feel like a tragic hero in a Shakespeare play

  Tupac Shakur

  Hero, Play, White

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• To joke in the face of danger is the supreme politeness, a delicate refusal to cast oneself as a tragic hero.

  Edmond Rostand

  Hero, Faces, Danger

  Edmond Rostand, Howard Thayer Kingsbury (2004). “Cyrano de Bergerac”, p.205, Simon and Schuster

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• Adolescents are attracted to tragic heroes. That's why rock stars dress like homeless people. Adolescence is a fall. It's when every child becomes an orphan.

  Heather O'Neill

  Estrellas, Niños, Otoño

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• Mis palabras vuelan hacia arriba, mis pensamientos permanecen abajo

  Claudio

  Lenguaje y poder, Hamlet y Ofelia, La venganza de Hamlet

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