Hamartia

He wanted to end the waiting game. If he did not know his fate, he would not have committed such a heinous act. This quote is also a literary technique named hamartia. This is hamartia because that led to MacBeth’s downfall. “I won't go back! I don't fade to think of what I've done. I don't look at it again!” (Act 2 Scene 2). This line is showing the afternoon Macbeth had committed a heinous act and had blood on his hands…

Ho takes an in depth examination of the meaning of the term, hamartia, arguing that the term refers to the ignorance of one’s actions as applied to Aristotle’s Poetics. Ho’s close examination includes line-by-line correlation to the original Greek text. Although this essay does not provide a direct correlation to the play, Oedipus the King, the information discussed provides a valid reference to the meaning behind the term, hamartia. This paper is a useful secondary source to expand on one of…

detective king, which turns into a tragic hero through hamartia. “Although hamartia is often translated as ‘tragic flaw,’ there is a debate among scholars as to the nature and scale of the error that causes a tragic hero’s downfall. Some interpret the term to mean a mere accident or mistake of perception.” According to Aristotle a tragic hero is a person of stature, prosperous, and one who falls into misfortune. This would be on account of hamartia or other character flaws also with a role…

with the witches for the second time and the first predictions have come true for Macbeth. Now he is considering even killing the king and wondering why he thinks that. Shakespeare uses literary features, internal struggles, and motifs to set up the hamartia of the tragic hero Macbeth in the novel. This passage is a soliloquy meaning that it is spoken to the audience and the other characters in the play do not hear what he is saying. Using this feature allows Shakespeare to point out internal…

Willy is a tragic hero because throughout the play he showed his judgment error because of his hamartia. His hamartia, which is weakness to see his failure in life, caused him to make error by seeing delusions. This delusions, which is the result made by his desire to escape and forget, began to make him fall into pieces as he began to slip into a dream instead of holding onto the reality. He would try to apply every hopes and dreams into his mental world, trying to save what little he have left…

In the movie, Gladiator Maximus Meridius portrays the characteristics of a tragic hero according to Aristotle’s theory. He has a hubris, hamartia, and catastrophe. In the beginning of the movie he was a Roman General who lived with his wife and his son. He was a very prestigious member of the empire that help fight various battles, seeing his capability, the emperor wanted to appoint him he said; "I want you to become the protector of Rome after I die. I will empower you to one end alone; to…

notable win against Amalinze the cat (Achebe 3). Unlike his father, Okonkwo is able to provide for his family, consisting of three wives and many children (Achebe 6). Despite Okonkwo’s greatness, he inevitably falls from grace as a result of his hamartia, similarly to a tragic hero. Okonkwo’s fall starts with the death of Ikemefuna, a fifteen-year-boy from a neighbouring clan, Mbaino, who lives with Okonkwo’s family. As…

the Turks and saved many. He was loved for his courageous life, and respected for his honesty and rationality. He is the tragic hero in Othello and what gives him that title is due to his hamartia of jealousy. Although by the end of the tragedy, he was seen as cruel and dastardly and was consumed with his hamartia of the “green eyed monster” (3.4.167), the occurrence of his flaw does not make him…

Shakespeare’s Elizabethan tragedy, ‘Othello’, resonates the damnation and inevitable dissolution of man in the face of compunction, facades, hubris and unbridled jealousy; extremities which foster the machinations of our humanity-the igniter of one’s hamartia. Through the use of dramatic irony, symbolism and soliloquies, Shakespeare journeys one through the complexities and subtleties of the human condition; accentuating the eponymous hero’s inexorable fall from grace which is centred on social…

is a noble man who has certain tragic flaws that lead him towards destruction and ruins. The hamartia as exhibited by Troy is his stubbornness, selfishness, and self-centeredness. It is because of these tragic flaws that Troy has to face fall like any other tragic hero. Furthermore, Wilson has successfully made use of metaphors and symbols through the actions and decisions of Maxson that explain his hamartia and other tragedies of life. Troy is a self-centered and anti-social man who values his…