Notes for 10th grade on the qualities of a tragic hero
possesses the qualities of a tragic hero
Not even the powerful figures enshrined on Mt. Rushmore could quite match Lyndon Johnson’s unsurpassed ability to impose his will on people and events. The 36th President’s vision and ambition equaled his political shrewdness. The Machiavellian knowledge accumulated over decades as master of Texas’s famously cutthroat politics and the Senate’s byzantine ways equipped him, he imagined, to literally change the world. Inasmuch as the character trait that made him powerful — his hubristic belief that he could through cunning and power politics bend anything to his will — is also the tragic flaw that leads him to overreach, Johnson boasts all the qualities of a tragic hero, and is the most Shakespearean of American leaders.
Resource C – the qualities of a tragic hero
Whether Mary Stuart was the champion of women's rights in the 16th Century as heradmirers claim, or the conspiring and murderous woman that her critics claim, she was oneof the most interesting women of her time. Her life possessed all the qualities of atragic hero. She was beautiful and had the world in the palm of her hand, yet it was notmeant to be. She would fall from her glorious status due to circumstances that may or maynot have been out of her control.