Discovering the Tragic Hero: Ancient and Modern
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In more modern times, a greater educated and greater informed public has a cynical tendency to expect their leaders to fall, typically as a result of personal characteristics.... When one approaches the play with the conception of domestic tragedy in mind, the play easily falls within this category as Kierkegaard defines it, allowing the hero to stand or fall on his own.... This is most brave, that I, the son of a dear father murdered, prompted to my revenge by heaven and hell, must like a whore unpack my heart with words and fall a-cursing like a very drab” (II, ii, 568-572)....