Dictionary defines a hero as a person who is admired for great or brave acts. A villain is defined as a person who does bad things. According to these definitions, many classic characters, would be both a hero and a villain, but is that really possible? The tragic hero is a longstanding literary concept. A tragic hero is a character with a fatal flaw, such as pride or ignorance, who is doomed to despite their best efforts or good intentions. This fatal flaw can sometimes portray our hero in a more villainous
he chooses to live his life. Were first introduced to Troy Maxson we learn that, he has thwarted dreams which lead him to become a fictitious man. Troy is a former baseball player for the Negro League, he is declined before the Major Leagues accepted blacks. Troy works hard for his family he plays the dominate role, he is the breadwinner. All the characters are gathered around knowing or having a relationship with Troy. Inadequate is how troy feels at the end of the story, he has provided for his
The leading character of Fences, Troy Maxson, is a hard working African American man living in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania in the late 1950s and early 1960s. With great talent, Troy once had dreams of becoming a professional baseball player; but by the time the leagues integrated he was too old to continue playing, this resulted in Troy settling down with his wife Rose in a two-story brick home on the edge of the city with his children and his brother Gabriel. He worked for the sanitation department
biggest thing that differs from one play to another is the characterization of the father figures in both plays. In both plays the fathers, Willy and Troy, have similar goals when it comes to their families but very different aspects on a couple of topics. The main conflicts in both plays are the mainly the father-son conflicts between Willy and Biff and Troy and Cory, Willy's and Troy’s chase to be the providers for the family, and the fact that neither father had a half-decent father figure to influence