In Greek tragedies what is the difference between hamartia and hubris?
Hamartia is the fatal flaw that brings a good character to ruin.
Hubris is pride, the classic example of hamartia.
Hamartia is the fatal flaw that brings a good character to ruin.
Hubris is pride, the classic example of hamartia.
Poet Vachel Lindsay killed himself by drinking Lysol, in 1931 at age fifty-two.
“Well, let’s get on with it. . . .” is the last line of Jean-Paul Sartre’s play No Exit. It is spoken by Garcia when he realizes he is facing eternity.
The Castle of Otranto was inhabited by Manfred, the Prince of Otranto, with his family, in the 1764 Gothic novel The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole.
Ogden Nash wrote the ditty in 1931. In 1968, he updated it: Candy is dandy But liquor is quicker. Pot is not.
Mr. Yorick narrates Laurence Sterne’s A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy, a character from Sterne’s earlier novel Tristram Shandy (1767) .
Edward King, a college friend from Cambridge who had become a clergyman was commemorated in Milton’s elegy Lycidas. He drowned in 1637.