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Tragedy and the Tragic Hero Sort

Directions:
1. Choose one of the texts to read from your options linked below.
2. Then use your notes on tragedy and the tragic hero to completely identify each of the elements that are present for your selected text’s tragic hero.
3. Tomorrow you will use your notes to complete your “Tragic Hero Comic” illustration to communicate your tragic hero’s traits.

Oedipus Marie Antoinette Lance Armstrong


Greek Myth Historical tragic hero Professional Athlete

Read the myth of Oedipus, the man who killed his father Read about Marie Antoinette, the Queen of Read about Lance Armstrong, America’s favorite
and married his mother. France, leading up to the French Revolution. cyclist and Livestrong founder.

**You do not have to answer the questions at


the end of the reading **

Element of the Tragic Evidence from the Text Reasoning


Hero Copy and paste your evidence in the boxes below How does this show or prove the trait?

Noble Birth- She was born into a royal family, giving her a high
The character is “Marie Antoinette, was the 15th child of Holy Roman Emperor Francis I and the powerful Habsburg status at birth
considered to be good
empress Maria Theresa. She was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1755–an age of great instability for European
or is someone that
others look up to monarchies.”

Tragic Flaw- “ the royal couple was oblivious to their subjects' plight. A failed harvest had made the price of grain The queen didn't care about the people and how
The quality or trait that skyrocket, and mobs were rioting in the streets of Paris, demanding cheap bread. Crushing taxes were also their crops were failing, she did not care to try and
the character takes too taking their toll on the populace……” fix/help them despite being their queen. She only
far; it causes their “the queen gambled recklessly; ordered expensive jewelry and clothes and spent a fortune on creating cared about spending the money for herself
downfall
her own private domain at Versailles--the Petit Trianon…. How could the queen spend the nation's money, instead of for the people. She became greedy,
at a time of financial crisis, on her private hideaway?” and selfish.
“Marie Antoinette kept spending more and more money, until finally the people of France had had
enough.”

Peripeteia- “A little before noon on October 5 1784, a mob of several thousand market women, armed with pikes and She realized it was bad when the people had
The character’s turning sickles, set out from Paris' Hotel de Ville (City Hall) on a 12-mile trek to Versailles to protest a lack of jobs and crowded around the palace and demanded her
point or reversal of the high cost of bread. By evening, thousands more, some carrying guns, had joined them in front of the to show herself, and they carried her and her
fortune. This is the start of
palace.” husband to be faced with the assembly of
their downfall.
“The Assembly voted to have the King Louis, Marie Antoinette, their son and daughter, and the king's sister ministers and councilors. And being locked away
Elisabeth locked up in the Temple tower. On September 20, the new revolutionary National Convention, showed her how bad it truly was, and facing the
the successor to the Assembly, met for the first time.” assembly was the start of her downfall.

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