A popular film with a wide audience, such a good thing to ruin with analysis. Not a perfect tragedy, doesn’t fit perfectly to Aristotle or Horace but does manipulate the genre very well to appeal to a wide audience. Maximus isn’t the perfect character but does tick most of the boxes as a tragic hero. […]
Use each of the following words below to write an accurate sentence or short paragraph about Gladiator: Protagonist, characteristic, inciting incident, hamartia, hubris, catharsis, ‘in medias res’, peripeteia and anagnorisis. Ridley Scott’s film ‘Gladiator’ clearly integrates Aristotle’s five key characteristics of a tragic hero into the protagonist Maximus in order for the audience to reach […]