TRAGEDIES Team: Daniela Cuervo,

Ares Ochoa, Juan Nava,

Luis Csar Carln and
Esmeralda Gracian 6E
 OEDIPUS AT COLONUS BY SOPHOCLES
LITERARY MOVEMENT: ANCIENT GREEK
Synopsis
Its about when a, man called Oedipus enter in a village called Colonus and sits a stone
in there a man tells him that get out form there because its sacred for them, then he
realizes that was the place where them prophecy said he will die and whenever he will
be buried it will a bless for all the people that lives there. But for everybody he was
someone that trespass a holy place he needs to do some rituals to emend his sins, so
then star to investigate what Oedipus did about the incest and in that moment Theseus
enters and he support Oedipus all the time. After that Creon, someone that comes from
Thebes try to convince Oedipus to return home, but instead Oedipus told him all bad
thing he did so Creon kidnapped Ismene and after that to another girl, finally de chorus
decide to ask Theseus some help to stop Creon and save the girls. Then Theseus tell to
Odeipus that someone was looking for him at the Poseidons temple which results to be
his son that was exiled from his home by his own brother and he says to Oedipus that he
will attack Thebes, of course Oedipus and another woman try to stop him, but it was
useless
Tragic Hero: Oedipus, he tought that the thunderstorm was his sign to die.
Tragic Flaw: When Oedipus walk into the thunderstorm.
 ROMEO AND JULIET BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
LITERARY MOVEMENTS: TRAGEDY/RENAISSANCE
Synopsis
This play is about two young people that felt in love al first sigh in a party on the , but the
problem is that their families (Capuleto and Montesque) are rivals. They know that they will not
be allowed to marry because of their families. Nevertheless they married in secret with the help
of Friar Laurance. Before their wedding Romeo fights with Julietas cousin and he kill him, they
fight because Julietas cousin killed his friend Mercutio, because of the murder of Juliets cousin
Romeo had have to run away to Mantua alone.
Juliets father told her that she have to marry with Paris but she didn't want and she ask for help
to Friar Laurance and they create a plan that Julieta had to fake her death.
Before Juliets wedding with Paris she drinks something that makes her look like shes death. The
plan was that Romeo was going to receive a letter that explain the plan but they don't receive
because when the letterman arrived Romeo was already gone.
When Romeo arrived at the cemetery and saw Juliet he killed himself with the poison that Julieta
took because he couldnt bear that Julieta was dead.
When Juliet woke up and saw that Romeo was death she kissed him and then she stabbed with
Romeos dagger.
Tragic hero: Romeo, because of his traits of loving easily and believing in fate.
Tragic flaw: He falls in love too quickly and too deeply brings him to an awful end.
 LA VIDA ES SUEO BY CALDERN DE LA BARCA
LITERARY MOVEMENT: BAROQUE
Synopsis
Segismundo is a prince who was raised as a beast in a prison. His father,
the king, brings him to the palace to test how he would act as a king, but
makes him believe that its a dream. Indeed, he behaves with pride,
violence, and tyranny, and he is brought back to prison. The soldiers
liberate him and Segismundo leads a revolt against his father but at the
end behaves with wisdom and mercy because of what he learned through
his dream.
Tragic Hero: Segismundo in 21st century New York City
Tragic Flaw: His father the King of the United States of Banana locks him
in dungeon of the Statue of Liberty for the crime of having been born."
 ANDROMAQUE BY JEAN RACINE
LITERARY MOVEMENT: FRENCH CLASSICISM Synopsis
The play takes place in the aftermath of the Trojan War, during which Andromache's husband
Hector, son of Priam, has been slain by Achilles and their young son Astyanax has narrowly
escaped a similar fate at the hands of Ulysses, who has unknowingly been tricked into killing
another child in his place.
Andromache has been taken prisoner in Epirus by Pyrrhus, son of Achilles, who is due to be
married to Hermione, the only daughter of the Spartan king Menelaus and Helen of Troy.
Orestes, son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, brother to Electra and Iphigenia, and by now
absolved of the crime of matricide prophesied by the Delphic oracle, has come to the court of
Pyrrhus to plead on behalf of the Greeks for the return of Astyanax.
Tragic Hero and Tragic flaw.
The amorous entanglements form the rhythm of the work and of the dialogues and narrate the
events happened after the War of Troy, in which Achilles killed Hctor. His wife, Andromache,
has just been slave of Pyrrhus, who is the son of Achilles. In turn, Pyrrhus is engaged to Hermione,
daughter of the King of Sparta, Menelaus.
 MARIANA PINEDA BY FEDERICO GARCA LORCA
LITERARY MOVEMENTE: GENERATION 27
Synopsis
A young Granada woman was imprisoned in 1831 for
having embroidered the flag that will serve as a badge of a
liberal insurrection. They promise her freedom if she betrays
her bosses, but when she refuses, she is condemned to death
and executed
Tragic Hero: Mariana Pineda
Tragic Flaw: The tragedy of women in the work of Lorca is
that, wanting to flee from their destiny of subdued seeking
freedom, they resort to the powerful call of their blind
forces that sink them into tragedy and death: it is the defeat
of freedom.
 OPINION
Juan: I feel that this kind of work helps a lot to know very curious things about the most important
literary works of all time, as well as their authors and the literary movements to which they belonged.
Esmeralda: Actually, i didn't like this work, i felt it boring but i learned what is tragic hero and tragic flaw
Daniela: Honestly when I was younger and people talked about Romeo and Juliet I thought that it was
a beautiful history but when I grown up I realized that its too sad and awful, and when I started to
know more about this play I started, in certain way, to hate it, its horrible the fact that they only had
have 16 years old and its weird because the whole story happens in just 3 days.
Ares: Working in this activity was a bit complicated since we did not first agree to distribute the
authors and after that it was a little complicated to determine what was the tragic hero and the tragic
flaw since in the work is not specifically identified, but in the end after analyzing the tragedy and the
characters manage to identify these aspects.
Luis: I liked to work in this portfolio because besides it tells an interesanting story it also gives you a
little clues about how does ancient times were and its funny and exciting to imagine how was
everything.
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