Yes, indeed! To Build a Fire is indeed another Greek tragedy, with the traveler as the protagonist, his tragic flaw being the hubris to go alone in the Alaskan winter, the antagonist being Mother Nature herself, and the dog as the Chorus, foretelling what is to come next. I’m not sure that The Cold Equations, though, draws on it particularly; rather, they both draw upon Sophocles, Euripedes, and Æschylus.
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