2003. According
to critic Northrop Frye, "Tragic heroes are so much the highest points in
their human landscape that they seem the inevitable conductors of the power
about them, great trees more likely to be struck by lightning than a clump of
grass. Conductors may of course be instruments as well as victims of the
divisive lightning." Select a novel or play in which a tragic figure
functions as an instrument of the suffering of others. Then write an essay in
which you explain how the suffering brought upon others by that figure
contributes to the tragic vision of the work as a whole.
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