After recovering his senses, he was so ashamed that he killed himself with the sword Hector had given him. A second Ajax also fought for the Greeks in the Trojan War. He was a small man known as Ajax the Lesser. Despite his size, this Ajax fought bravely and was known for his skill with a spear and his swiftness. After the Greek victory over the Trojans, Ajax the Lesser dragged Cassandra, the daughter of King Priam of Troy, away from the temple of the goddess Athena and assaulted her. As punishment, Athena caused Ajax and his fleet to be shipwrecked on their voyage home from the war.
The sea god Poseidon rescued him, but then when Ajax boasted that he had escaped death against the will of the gods, Poseidon became angry and drowned him. According to tradition, a hyacinth flower grew where Ajax's blood fell on the ground. On its petals could be traced the letters AI —the first letters of his Greek name and a word in Greek that means "alas.
According to later Greek mythology, after his death, Ajax went to the island of Leuce with his close friend Achilles. Toggle navigation. Also read article about Ajax from Wikipedia. User Contributions:. Comment about this article, ask questions, or add new information about this topic: Name:.
E-mail: Show my email publicly. Human Verification:. Julius Caesar is the tragic hero because his arrogance causes his death. He ignores the advice of the soothsayer, his wife, nature, priests, and Artemidorus. Absolute power always corrupts. Through his mistake he looses his name, home, and faces the demise of his wife and himself. Brutus truly is the tragic hero of Tragedy of Julius Caesar. Brutus made a voluminous amount of irreversible flaws that cause his own disappointment and demise.
His first mistake is the killing of his loyal and trusting friend, Caesar and not giving just cause to the crowd he gathered. First, I saw Julius Caesar as a tragic hero because his will to gain power was so strong that he ended up losing his life for it.
The fact that he could have been such a strong leader was destroyed when he was killed by conspirators. I saw Marcus Brutus as a second tragic hero in this play. Brutus was such a noble character that did not deserve to die. Caesar had to suffer through thirty-three stabs until he died!
His terror, desperation and By now the tragedy is inevitable; of his own free will Faustus has rejected all hope of salvation and the audience waits in trepidation for his impending doom. In conclusion the arrogance and blasphemy apparent in many of Faustus' speeches "a greater subject fitteth Faustus' wit", "Faustus, try thy brains to gain a deity" etc are characteristic of the classical tragic hero. For example, Faustus' pride and arrogance which the Greeks called 'hubris' is strikingly similar to that of Aeschylus' tragic hero, king Agamemnon.
As far as the issue of free will is concerned, I think that Faustus does have the opportunity to make his own decisions, despite Marlowe's paradoxical portrayal of a God whom, whilst able to control our predestination, cannot when it comes down to it control or undo the contract which Faustus makes.
He lacks any credibility for his motives and takes great pleasure in his ability to destroy the lives of Othello, Desdemona, Cassio, and Emilia. He created all the madness in the play but was never caught until the end finally arrived. He proves this clearly that he seems like he is always watching out for people when really he is out to devastate the lives of so many. Even though Iago was successful in eliminating Othello and the others, he was not victorious in the end because the problems he caused, deaths especially, cannot be resolved.
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