Tragic Flaw Essay

Sophocles imagined a different breed of hero that was later defined by Aristotle. Aristotle defines a tragic hero as a highborn person who, as a result of some tragic flaw or shortcoming in his personality, makes a mistake in judgement which brings about misery, a loss of moral dignity, great sorrow, and suffering. In Sophocles's tragedy, Antigone, King Creon possesses all the qualities of a tragic hero. Blinded by his pride, King Creon sentenced false protagonist Antigone to death, thus…

Willy Loman Willy Loman was a tragic hero, he was a man trapped in a state of perpetual delusion. Although Willy was a failure, his future was not always bleak and his failure to recognize the error of his ways was ultimately his greatest shortcoming. Conversely, his intentions were of a good nature despite being in a contradictory and an obsessive state most of the time. As the play progresses, Willy becomes unpredictable and obsessive to a point of psychosis. Willy decides to end his life in…

Aristotle said, a tragic hero is a man of noble stature. He is not an ordinary man, but a man with outstanding quality and greatness about him. His own destruction is for a greater cause or principle. The novel, Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer, is about a young man, Christopher Johnson McCandless, who leaves his whole life behind to go live in the Alaskan wilderness. Chris is a great example of a tragic hero because he did not agree with society and abandoned all his worldly possessions to find…

Aristotle argues that a tragic hero is, “who is not eminently good and just, whose misfortune is brought about not by vice or depravity, but by some error or frailty.” In Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, the protagonist; John Proctor, is led to his misfortune through his fatal sin of adultery with his former slave; Abigail Williams. Proctor, a well-respected and powerful man in town, feels the guilt with what he had done with his wife Elizabeth, so he repents his sin in court by blackening his own…

Oedipus- A Tragic Hero in Oedipus Rex Oedipus was an old Greek play created by Sophocles in 429 BC. The story remains a standout amongst the most riveting stories ever, and it specifically brings out negative discernments and undertones in the cutting-edge society. The story has been thought to be the most melancholic for the past 2500 years. The hero in this story had a sexual association with his own mother in the wake of murdering his dad. In Sophocles' "Oedipus", Oedipus is exemplified as a…

I consider Othello to be a tragic hero because throughout the play he demonstrates heroic characteristics. For example, Othello is appointed as a general in the Venetian army and dispatched to Cyprus by the Duke of Venice to fight the Ottomans (Bevington, 2014): Valiant Othello, we must straight employ you Against the general enemy Ottoman. (Shakespeare, 1604, 1.3.50-51) Furthermore, Othello demonstrates heroic characteristic because even though at certain times his actions were wrong…

Aristotle states that a tragic hero must not be the most flawless human being in the world. Like Superman, they have one fatal weakness or character flaw that leads to their unfortunate death or downfall. Put against this standard, Hamlet is a neat fit for this definition of a tragic hero. His burning sense for revenge obviously got the better of him as he isolated himself from the people who cared about…

with an overwhelming force of zombies and it seems that they will all die inevitably but the show continues and gives the viewers a suspenseful story line. An example of tragic style play would be the scene from Doctor Faustus. In this scene it is considered Elizabethan tragedy because the tragic hero (Dr. Faustus) has a flaw or makes an error in his judgement that eventually leads to his own doom. The entire time his error eats him alive. He shows his doubts with the first time he talks in…

For example, the conversation between Haemon and Creon, the reader gains essential information surrounding Creon’s actions and how they show his Tragic hero qualities, when Creon insults Haemon,” You foul creature/ you 're worse than any woman”(ln. 852-853). After this , Haemon comes back, responding by telling him,”You’ll not catch me/ giving way to some disgrace”(ln.854-55). In making this comment…

Lady Macbeth brings out Macbeth’s tragic flaw when she proposes the idea of killing King Duncan and he states, “I have no spur . . . but only vaulting ambition” (1.7.25-27). Once King Duncan has been murdered, this flaw is revealed because his actions reflect on his ambition to stay king. Macbeth begins by planning on killing Banquo and his son because the witches told Banquo…