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Comparing Romeo And Juliet And Oedipus Rex: A Greek Tragedy

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When think of the tragedy, I automatically think of Greek plays and Shakespearean plays, which have some tragic endings. The point of a tragedy is main character or characters always have a fatal flaw which leads to their various downfalls, what makes it a tragedy is usually that the character themselves are of good intentions and are in fact trying to help or end a terrible situation. However, in the end because of these characters flaws they fail and often die. Some examples are Romeo and Juliet where the tragedy is their love that cannot be freely expressed because their families are enemies; another one is Oedipus Rex a Greek tragedy where the main characters flaw is pride.
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Israelis launched a hugely successful military campaign against its perceived enemies. This campaign lead to, the air forces of Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Iraq being destroyed on June 5th. As the days pasted many Egyptian tanks had been destroyed in the Sinai Desert and Israeli forces reached the Suez Canal. On June 7th the west bank of the Jordan River had been cleared of Jordanian military and Israeli forces moved 30 miles into Syria. This was a devastating even for the Arab nations, how one nation could defeat 4 nations in a short period of time. After Israel had won this war on June 19, 1967, the Israeli unity government passed a decision, ”stating that Israel was prepared to return the Sinai Peninsula to Egypt and the Golan Heights to Syria, in return for signed peace

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