Tragic Characters: Orestes and Thomas a Beckett. This eight-page undergraduate paper examines and analyzes whether Thomas a Beckett, in T.S. Eliot's "Murder in the Cathedral", and Orestes, in Aeschylus' "The Eumenides", are tragic characters. The paper concludes that each of them are indeed tragic characters, and explains why. 8 pgs. Bibliography lists 3 sources. Pages: 8 Bibliography: 3 source(s) listed Filename: 3937 Tragic Characters.doc Price: 71.60