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The Gangster As Tragic Hero: An Analysis

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As I was a child I always wanted to watch movies which a heoro defeats a villian. Growing up I want to see more movies about villians, gangters, because being happy and perfect is what we have been always taught and tried to achieve everyday. People know that there is a bad side in everyone, and no one wants to express it. Happiness and kindness become so common. Being happy is easy to understand, but it is more interesting to know what makes a person becomes bad. People want to know that they are not the only one who is sad. They want to know that they are not alone. Especially when happiness is so hard to maintain nowaday days. As Robert Warshow mentioned in “The Gangster as Tragic Hero” that “happiness, thus becomes the chief pilitical issue”.

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