Classicists such as Arthur Verrall and Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff reacted against the views of the Schlegels and Nietzsche, constructing arguments sympathetic to Euripides, which involved Wilamowitz in this restatement of Greek tragedy as a genre: " A tragedy does not have to end ' tragically ' or be ' tragic '.

Perhaps his most sympathetic screen role was as the tragic POW forger Colin Blythe in the 1963 film The Great Escape, who discovers that he is slowly going blind, but nonetheless participates in the mass break-out, only to be shot down by German soldiers because he is unable to see them.

Various characters assume the title of the Lady, including Viviane, Niniane, Morgan le Fay ( called " Morgaine " in this version ), and Nimue, a sympathetic and tragic young priestess who falls in love with the Merlin but is duty bound to seduce and lure him to his death – following which she drowns herself.

Michael Hattaway offers an alternate, sympathetic view of Joan which argues that the character's movement from saintly to demonic is justified within the text: " Joan is the play's tragic figure, comparable with Faulconbridge in King John.

In the 1951 film The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel he played a sympathetic Gerd von Rundstedt, presenting him as a tragic, resigned figure completely disillusioned with Hitler.

The character was now more sympathetic, a tragic heroine along the lines of a " lost soul " rather than an irredeemable psychopathic villainess.

" He wrote 150 or so plays over the course of his fifty year career, covering a wide variety of themes, styles, and forms, including short dance pieces, period plays ( jidaimono ), contemporary genre pieces ( sewamono ), tragedies and comedies, as well as adaptations of foreign ( Western ) stories, though he is perhaps most famous for his shiranamimono, plays featuring sympathetic or tragic rogues and thieves.

She occupies a place in the literature of abandoned women such as the tragic Dido, who committed suicide, and the evil Circe, whom Odysseus abandoned to complete his voyage, but she is considered by many to be more human, and thus more compelling and sympathetic, than either of them.

He is a villain in Torawakamaru the Koga Ninja, and a tragic antagonist in Fukurō no Shiro ( and in its remake Owls ' Castle, played by Takaya Kamikawa ).

This was until FM broadcasting radio re-emerged in the 1960s ( following FM's initial appearance and disappearance during the 1930s and 1940s-see Yankee Network for more details on early FM broadcasting and a tragic legacy to the Sarnoff story ).

Their initial career lasted until 1990, and singer Rubinstein committed suicide three years later following a series of tragic events.

This ultimately leads to his tragic death as after his initial rampage, the anger leaves him and due to his sorrow does not return when he needs it, thus showing that the rage can be influenced by one's deepest emotions.

Although Elaith can be quite ruthless, even cruel, in the pursuit of his goals, he is also a tragic character who seemingly never recovered from his initial fall.

Despite its poor initial reception the symphony is currently seen as a dynamic representation of the Russian symphonic tradition, with British composer Robert Simpson calling it " a powerful work in its own right, stemming from Borodin and Tchaikovsky, but convinced, individual, finely constructed, and achieving a genuinely tragic and heroic expression that stands far above the pathos of his later music.

The tragic past of Lord Fanny, a Brazilian transvestite and a member of King Mob's Invisibles cell, is revealed in a story arc titled " She-Man ", which jumps back and forth through time.

This is a typical example of Anderson's frequent motif of a tragic conflict — a story with no villains at all, with all protagonists having the best of good intentions and still forced into bitter conflict.

Both von Rauffenstein and de Boeldieu view their military service as a duty, and see the war as having a purpose ; as such, Renoir depicts them as laudable but tragic figures whose world is disappearing and who are trapped in a code of life that is rapidly becoming meaningless.

The series follows a tragic course in which Dream, having learned a great deal from his imprisonment, tries to correct the things he has done wrong in the past.

Several alternate versions appeared in the Bibliotheca, the Fabulae of Hyginus, and the Metamorphoses of Antoninus Liberalis, with major variations depicting Myrrha's father as the Assyrian king Theias or depicting Aphrodite as having engineered the tragic liaison.

They were also portrayed as at odds with society, having tragic lives, and often given to self-destructive tendencies.

The novel traces a tragic path, as Irene becomes suspicious that her husband is having an affair with Clare.

" There will be some casualties when you put this information out there, and these are casualties which are tragic ... but this has to be balanced with the growing pool of older people who feel immense wellbeing from having access to this information ", Nitschke said.

In the museum, which is in the form of a reconstituted mountain village, the visitors can relive the first and tragic ascent of the Matterhorn and see the objects having belonged to the protagonists.

The 1958 – 59 Cincinnati team featured five rookies, with Lovellette, King and other key players having left the team in the wake of Stokes ' tragic injury.

It is difficult to imagine the tragic heroines, however, as having such practical considerations in mind.

: Thrust into a coma after having a glimpse of the future, Karen is the tragic figure in this novel.

He crashed again during the tragic event at Imola due to poor fitness having not driven a race distance in six months.

* The Cantar de Bernardo del Carpio, that narrates the tragic history of a bastard of noble origin because of releasing his father, Count of Saldaña, jailed for having generated him from a real princess ; in his efforts to rehabilitate the family honor, he is unfairly treated by his king Alfonso the Chaste.

That joy quickly came to an end, first by losing 6 – 0 to Montezuma, and then having the club's travelling bus involved in a tragic accident in the San Juan de los Lagos roads that would take the lives of many of the club's players and had a big impact on the surviving players.

Characters of this nature are often depicted as having tragic lives, but put on a front when in public to create the illusion of happiness.

His tenure as manager ended in tragic circumstances two weeks later when he was found dead at his home on 27 November, having apparently committed suicide.

The balance of light and darkness began to shift in Dahak's favor through every tragic event: The Sumerian gods have died as a result of having nothing to sustain themselves, and Dahak himself had killed the noble druids of Ireland, who acted as mentors to Hercules after Iolaus ' apparent death.

* Silver Agent — An armored vigilante who suffered a tragic fate, hinted at for years and finally revealed as having been convicted and executed by the law, on false evidence.

" Aristotle's detailed analysis of this problem involves his study of tragic literature and its paradoxical nature to be shocking as well as having poetic value.

Among the characters are a mature couple about to renew their vows ( Sean Connery and Gena Rowlands ); a woman ( Gillian Anderson ) who accepts a date offer from a stranger ( Jon Stewart ); a gay man dying of AIDS ( Jay Mohr ) and his mother ( Ellen Burstyn ) who has struggled to accept him ; two clubbers who meet in a nightclub ( Ryan Phillippe and Angelina Jolie ); a couple having an affair ( Anthony Edwards and Madeleine Stowe ) and a man ( Dennis Quaid ) who tells his tragic life story to a woman he meets in a bar ( Patricia Clarkson ), but seems to have a strange connection to another mysterious woman.

" A recurring victim for her cruelty is a bartender named Smitty, who tells her tragic events in his life, such as being on his last day, his twin brother dying in a fire or having the childhood memory of his mother being killed in front of him, only to have her laugh in his face and thank him for cheering her up.

For a time heavily pro-dictatorship, he had to suffer the tragic fate of having one his sons being tortured and incarcerated for belonging to an underground guerrilla organization.

Only one victory of Ion's is mentioned, on which occasion, it is said, having gained the dithyrambic and tragic prizes at the same time, he presented every Athenian with a pitcher of Chian wine.

By 1910, though, " she was having trouble finding suitable roles in the light American theater for her more emotional and tragic style.

" Addressing the Zionist Organization of America in October 1942, having heard the reports of genocide, he lamented, " Our generation is in the tragic position that one-half of the generation is being slaughtered before our eyes, and the other half has to sit down and cannot prevent this catastrophe.

During this time she acquired her famous coffin, in which she often slept in lieu of a bed – claiming that doing so helped her understand her many tragic roles.

Such factors affect the game's ending, which is also affected by decisions such as whether to obtain the most powerful class, which can only be acquired by making a tragic sacrifice.

Also in this period, many other bands acquired widespread national projection, such as: Raimundos ( which was formed in the late 1980s, but only released its first album in 1994 ) with its Forrocore style, Skank and O Rappa, both of which with a style that can be designated like a kind of reggae-rock, Pato Fu as the first indie band that arrived at mainstream, Charlie Brown Jr., with its alternative rock with rap and skate punk influences, and Mamonas Assassinas, who were a great hit with humour and rock but its members died in a tragic plane accident ( 1996 ).

In 1999, the museum acquired an 1850s log cabin with a very similar floor plan to that of the Donnelly homestead, making it a dramatic setting for visitors to hear the retelling of the Donnelly story, and visualize the tragic events that occurred in the early morning hours of February 4, 1880.