Oh, Oedipus...

You so tragic!  
(Sorry..I left this incomplete without realizing it!)

Your assignment:  Find a parallel tragic hero in modern history, literature, movies, television,etc.

Complete a full, written sketch of your modern tragic hero.  Follow Aristotle's definition.  You have a chart(which we will discuss tomorrow) that very nicely illustrates these qualities.  The link is here .

Yeah, you can probably Google this.  You can find millions of professor-given examples online.  But c'mon, this isn't so hard.  Utilize your interests to get this done.  Me, I love celebrity gossip, so I'm likely to pick some sad starlet.  Or Steve Jobs.  Maybe.

Is anyone off-limits?  Of course.  Actual tragic heroes, from literature?  Off-limits.  And what constitutes modern, you may ask?  For me, it should be a figure that existed or was created anywhere from 1900 to the present.  That's a pretty big window.

This can't be emailed to me because I'd like it to be pretty.  I'd like a picture of your hero, surrounded by their Aristotlian, (is that a word?) tragic qualities.  You should be as specific as possible.  If every hero needs a flaw, for example, you should name that flaw.  Maybe even give an example of it in action.  If I was doing Steve Jobs(ahem...this another no-no for you guys), then I may say his flaw was his ego.  That ego was deadly, in fact, because it led to him believing he could cure his cancer without modern medicine, which, in turn, killed him.  Tragic stuff.

Here's my pathetic example...here

I only completed one of the six characteristics, but I hope you get the point.  Contact me at any point before the due date(January 2nd!)  if you have a question.

Rock out.