Elizabeth Kubler Ross, in Death and Dying, discusses the stages one goes through when he or she meets when he or she comes to terms with a death or even his or her own fate. These stages include Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, and Acceptance. In Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex, and the medieval morality play, Everyman, by and anonymous author, both the title characters travel through these stages throughout the plot when they come to meet their …showed first 75 words of 720 total…

…showed last 75 words of 720 total…into his grave knowing that he has finally made peace with himself and done some good in his life, as seen by Good Deeds’ decent with him. Everybody must travel throughout the five stages described by Kubler Ross, and these plays are just one way of showing us that we must work to reach Acceptance. It is no easy task, but if we do, we, like Everyman and Oedipus, will be our own “Tragic Heroes.”