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Comparison Essay The Revolutionized Depiction of Tragic Heroes in Chekhov's piece, The Cherry Orchard and Sophocles' play "Oedipus the King" The Aristotelian term "tragic hero" is most commonly defined in Aristotle's piece The Poetics as being an individual that is of noble blood and neither worse nor better morally than most people. Further more, Aristotelian views state that tragic heroes are accompanied by tragic flaws that eventually induce that character's demise. Chekhov's piece, The Cherry Orchard and Sophocles' play "Oedipus the King," are prime examples within the literary world in which the reader is given a nearly revolutionized depiction of the Aristotelian "tragic hero," changing the manner in which the reader views this dated Aristotelian concept. Essentially, each of these pieces redefines what it really means to be a tragic hero. These differing attributes of the "tragic heroes" in each of the pieces are revealed through each character's reactions to certain life...

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