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| 224459551 | Mandel | Protagonist is compelled by good will to fight fate | |
| 224459552 | Mandel | Protagonist meets with spiritual or physical suffering after being doomed to his or her fate | |
| 224459553 | Butcher | Protagonist is engaged in an unequal struggle with destiny; destiny represented by forces inside or outside his or her mind | |
| 224459554 | Butcher | Protagonist's death restores the moral order of the world | |
| 224459555 | Kerr | Protagonist attempts to investigate the possibilities of human freedom | |
| 224459556 | Kerr | Protagonist has a vast freedom to know and to choose | |
| 224459557 | Kerr | Protagonist's downfall is ultimately brought upon him by his own actions even though he has a predetermined destiny | |
| 224459558 | Kerr | Protagonist essentially has a "self-contained freedom" | |
| 224459559 | Frye | Protagonist has a divine destiny that is almost within his grasp | |
| 224459560 | Frye | Protagonist's downfall set in action by a violation of moral law (either human or divine) | |
| 224459561 | Schlegel | Protagonist struggles between his external finite existence and his internal infinite aspirations | |
| 224459562 | Schlegel | Protagonist's downfall arises when his aspirations cause him to go beyond his limitations | |
| 224459563 | Schlegel | Protagonist's external limitations defined by his own human nature and the forces of nature that surround him | |
| 224459564 | Krutch | Protagonist's tragic downfall is inseparably linked to the idea of nobility | |
| 224459565 | Krutch | Protagonist strongly believes in the greatness and importance of man | |
| 224459566 | Krutch | Protagonist's tragic downfall reveals the triumph of the human spirit over the outward universe that fails to conquer it | |
| 224459567 | Langer | Protagonist enters a period of growth and maturity, with the tragedy following the personal pattern of a human life | |
| 224459568 | Langer | Protagonist rises from obscurity, grows, accomplishes his or her destiny, and finally meets his or her doom | |
| 224459569 | Bradley | Protagonist is the center of the tragedy and is a conspicuous person, a person of high degree | |
| 224459570 | Bradley | Protagonist's suffering and calamity are exceptional, creating a strong contrast to previous happiness or glory | |
| 224459571 | Bradley | Protagonist's suffering extends beyond the protagonist himself, making the scene one of woe | |
| 224459572 | Bradley | Protagonist's troubled life leading up to his downfall an integral part of the story | |
| 224459573 | Tragic Hero | Protagonist refuses to surrender; reveals strength, courage, and independence no matter the punishment that fate throws in his way | |
| 224459574 | Tragic Hero | Protagonist displays a belief in his own freedom, a supreme pride, capacity for suffering, a sense of commitment, vigorous protest, transfiguration, and finally, impact | |
| 224459575 | Tragic Hero | Protagonist believes everything he does is of his own accord up until his fate reveals that his freedom was a lie | |
| 224459576 | Tragic Hero | Protagonist maintains a sense of commitment that creates an inevitability that moves him to the resolution | |
| 224459577 | Tragic Hero | Protagonist's suffering changes and refines him, causing him to learn from his agony | |
| 224459578 | Tragic Hero | Protagonist believes that he is superior to man and equal to the gods, giving the tragic hero a unique power and dignity | |
| 224459579 | Aristotle | Protagonist's downfall an imitation of a single, unified action that is serious, complete, and of a certain magnitude | |
| 224459580 | Aristotle | Protagonist's downfall caused in part by some error on the part of the protagonist, NOT by vice or depravity | |
| 224459581 | Aristotle | Protagonist is a man whose character is good, believable, and consistent | |
| 224459582 | Aristotle | Protagonist's downfall arouses emotions of pity and terror resulting in a catharsis of these emotions | |
| 224459583 | Hegel | Protagonist hard to discern; tragedy revolves around a conflict between two good people or two good intentions | |
| 224459584 | Hegel | Protagonist's internal conflict between two conflicting good intentions leads to his or her tragic downfall |
