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whenever anyone calls troy maxson from fences a tragic hero an angel loses its wings. HE WAS NOT A FUCKING TRAGIC HERO!!!

The reasons his relationships all crumbled were because of his own (completely avoidable!!) actions

Cory - Why did Troy say Cory couldn't do football? because he was afraid Cory would outshine him. Why did Troy kick Cory out? Because Cory started standing up for himself. Please do not be insecure.

Rose - he cheated on her man what else do you want me to say? then had the audacity to come to her door with his dead mistress's child and be like "you gotta raise this kid" she did not deserve that

Lyons - He never gave a FUCK about Lyons and if he actually cared he wouldn't be a dick when Lyons borrowed money. Was it a lot of money? Yes. But he also didn't use his own money to pay for his house so cut your losses ig

Gabriel - If your brother goes to the army and becomes disabled and is now in a state where he genuinely believes he is an archangel, you gotta treat him with respect. Idgaf how much of a hassle he is. His disability is paying for YOUR HOUSE....

Bono - Troy wanted to aggravate Mr. Rand (his boss bee tee dubs) and said he was going to take something to the union yadda yadda racist garbage people whatever got a promotion and doesn't see Bono anymore. This is the man who followed you FROM JAIL to PICK UP TRASH with you and you didn't bother to keep in touch with him after a promotion? Also again with cheating on your wife... if you didn't do that then Bono would have still been your friend

anyways thanks for coming to my tedtalk on why troy was just a fucking terrible dude like i get that he really did love his family/friends but damn he has the emotional capacity of a three year old

UMMM

I made a quiz that tells you which character trope you fit best! There’s ten different results! Feel free to take it!

Reblog in the tags what you got!

I want to be the side character queer teens get emotionally attached to. I want the main character to love me as much as I love them. I want the sort of love that can make the hero into the villain if something happens to me.

What I am is a background character who thinks she could be a tragic hero but isn’t even close. Being a tragic hero means the story is about you. It isn’t, though. It isn’t about me.

The main character will never look at me and drown in my eyes. I’m never going to fight a villain, I’ll never be the villain. I’ll never get an enemies to lovers story.

At most, I’ll get a page from the story. Be someone the main character passes in a coffee shop, or the one who is caught staring when the main character and their love interest bicker in the library. Nothing more

theo raeken and tragic hero essay... thing (idk what i'm doing)

in this... essay, i will talk about theo raeken as a tragic hero, because why the hell not.

tragedy as a literary genre goes all the way back to the 5th century BC, and is still written about today. it is a genre of drama focused on stories of human suffering, where a human flaw/weakness/choice leads to devastating events, traditionally ending with death. examples of tragedies include 'romeo and juliet', 'a streetcare named desire', etc etc.

so, anyways, tragedies have multiple components, with an introduction, a middle and an end, dramatic events, a character that is usually the tragic hero, and it all leads to catharsis (catharsis being the purging of emotion).

the structure would go more or less like that:

the tragic hero, central character, starts out in a good position (could be of high social standing, or maybe they're famous, successful, happy in general, etc), whose choices or weaknesses lead to a chain of events that end with their downfall. it could be oeudipus, killing his father and marrying his mother, and later being like 'oh shit'. because of their action or trait, the hero is now facing an inevitable ending, which is... tragic.

and that leads us to theo!

i consider that theo's tragedy starts with him watching tara die, and ends with him going to hell (we're ignoring season 6, sorry theo, maybe later), and would probably actually be composed of two parts (his childhood, and then him arriving in beacon hills again).

we have the tragic hero, theo, who, while he has good qualities, makes an error of judgement (that's an understatement) and lets his sister tara die of hypothermia, in order to gain power. that choice leads to his downfall, as he becomes the first chimera, being experimented on.

so we'll consider theo's hunger for power his tragic flaw (the 'hamartia' of the story, which is a factor that causes the downfall), that follows him all the way to the first episode where we see him.

then again, theo starts out great, but he ends up experiencing peripeteia; a reversal. while he was planning on taking over scott's pack, there is a reversal of situation, which means that it doesn't turn out how he wanted.

from then on, theo loses control over the story, kills part of his pack, loses the few 'betas' he had, becoming isolated, fails at everything he attempts, and, at the last moment, realizes what's about to become of him. before being dragged by tara into 'hell', he has a moment of 'anagnorisis' (recognition) of his fate, and tries to fight against it (pleading to be helped, trying to hold on something).

however, a tragic character, while they might fight against fate, cannot reverse it, which is why theo gets trapped in hell.

so in my opinion, theo shares traits with tragic heroes, and part of his story follows the concepts of tragedy.

where it lacks, however, is the fact that you probably don't relate or pity theo's downfall until you've watched season 6 and started liking theo (which doesn't go along the idea of the tragic hero being relatable), and thus there is little catharsis, except for general satisfaction at his tragic ending. theo also escapes, in a way, his tragedy, by later being released from hell (his ending is reversed).

anyways, the story has a tragic hero, a tragic flaw, some sort of catharsis, peripeteia, and some late anagnorisis, so i'll consider it a tragedy :).

(sources are

https://www.supersummary.com/tragedy/

https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/a/agamemnon-the-choephori-and-the-eumenides/critical-essay/aristotle-on-tragedy

https://literaryterms.net/tragedy/

https://www.britannica.com/art/tragedy-literature

https://teen-wolf-pack.fandom.com/wiki/Theo_Raeken)