The novel as a more realistic literary genre, is sometimes distinguished in academic literary criticism from the romance; but this distinction is not maintained by all literary critics. 3. ... A literary work meant to be performed in a theatre. ... But problems may arise when one tries to define it in terms of the intrinsic qualities which a work must have in order for it to be classified as dramatic 4. ... It centers about man's elemental passions like love, hatred, jealousy and revenge hence usually tragic. ... Tragedy A drama in which serious themes are dramatized and the ...

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Jude is therefore more like a traditional Marxist literary hero rather than a Greek hero of tragic myth. ... Sue herself compares him to Joseph, to a "tragic Don Quixote" (Part IV, Chapter 1) and to St. ... Because he believes these conventions he never overcomes his inevitable tragic ending due to this character flaw, which is his inability to think of himself in terms other than what society has prescribed on him. This character flaw is what links him closer to the Marxist literary hero who tries desperately to overcome the societal conventions against him but in the end will have no choic...

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The literary critic, Norman Holland, considers Horatio the Man of thought, Fortinbras, the man of action and Hamlet, the man of thought and action. ... How was this combination Hamlet's tragic flaw? ... Hamlet's tragic flaw is precisely these two traits; thought and action. ... The tragic hero, Hamlet, Prince of Denmark was not a man solely embodying either of the preceding two character sketches. ... Tragically, his thought did not lead him to a carefully planned tyranny but to indecisiveness and inaction. ...

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