Tragic Heros Essay, Research Paper

Romeo and Juliet Essay: Tragic Heroes

Romeo is a tragic hero because he fought and did everything he did to be with Juliet but it still didn?t work out and he ended up killing himself to be with Juliet, then finding she wasn?t dead just as he had drunken the poison. Then Juliet saw her dead Romeo and killed herself with a dagger.

The movie ?End of Days? has something like this. The main character fights Satan because he came to earth to take it over. At the end of the movie the demon possesses him and he must throw himself onto a statue holding a sword killing himself but saving the world, This is another example of a Tragic Hero.

The movie Gladiator?s main hero, Maximus Aries is also a tragic hero. It?s about a Roman army general who?s empire turned on him and imprisoned him after Caesar made him the heir to Rome. Caesar didn?t choose his own son because he was corrupt, when he told his son this his son suffocated Caesar before he annoced to Rome who the heir of Caesars empire was, and of course everyone would think it was his son, but it was actually Maximus. Caesar?s son told some troops to take Maximus and kill him in the forest but he escaped. They then had his wife and child crucified. He then gets sold as a slave, to an entertainer who makes Gladiators. Maximus then rises up and becomes undefeated and in the end and takes on Caesars son in a gladiator match. Caesar?s son wounded Maximus before the match but Maximus still managed to come through and kill him. He told everyone Caesars last dying wishes and his own to take Rome and make it republic once again then Maximus fell to the ground and died.

These 2 examples are like Romeo because they died or did something heroic and the outcome for them was bad and tragic. Tragic heroes usually die or have something bad happen to them at the end of the story, but they die for a good cause making it tragic that they died but they may have saved the world, or be reunited with there loved ones.