Hubris

irony where Oedipus tries to doubt the gods is imprudent and foolish, and his hamartia further led him to his tragic downfall. Throughout this tragedy, the use of hamartia is used to justify the catastrophic events that happened to Oedipus and his hubris further led into his anagnorisis, which ultimately leads him…

Despite the fact that James Hurst’s Brother in “The Scarlet Ibis” loves his sibling Doodle, his love is tainted his pride and cruelty that results from such feelings. Brother is humiliated by his brother's disability, and jeopardizes his hubris. This is shown blatantly in the passage, “When Doodle was five years old, I was embarrassed at having a brother of that age who couldn’t walk.” Thus, he tries to do something that at first glance appears born of love and tenderness towards his crippled…

Oedipus Rex’s faults are what ultimately led to his downfall. His blindness to the fact that he had killed his father and slept with his mother added to his hubris nature. Oedipus believed he could escape the fate the gods had set for him which made him arrogant. Oedipus was unable to see what was right in front of him, which was that he had killed his father and slept with his mother, and that makes him arrogant because he thinks he has…

The tragedy is an ancient form of drama, found as far back as Roman rule. In the traditional arc, a man of good standing has fame, fortune, and wealth, until his downfall caused by a tragic flaw, or hubris. The protagonist then falls from grace, losing all he once had. This is the case in the book Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe. The main character, Okonkwo, is a man of high standing in Igbo society who builds his way up from the low status he was raised in by his unreliable father. His hard…

Fracking and The Technologies of Humility and Hubris Over the past several years there has been an outcry from U.S. environmentalists regarding a process for extracting extremely large caches of oil and natural gas that, prior to this process, were unattainable. This process in called Hydraulic Fracturing, or Fracking for short and has strong support on both sides of the issue as to whether it is a safe practice or could cause irreversible damage to the environment. It is the intention of…

rational reasons for his laws and punishments. By the end of the play Creon’s hubris, or excessive pride, has taken over him, which leads to his demise. He does not realize how bad his hubris has interfered with his dealing of problems until Teiresias’s prophecy. By then it is too late. This is the path of a tragic character. The character has a hamartia, or tragic flaw. More often then not that tragic flaw is excessive pride, hubris. The character then goes through a peripetia, which is an…

982). No doubt at this juncture in the story, Willy could have made a decision that could have altered his future, but instead he refuses Charley’s offer telling him he has a job. Obviously, hubris was the driving force in Willy’s repeated denials when offered employment elsewhere. When one displays such hubris, the outcome can be destructive and is quite different than a healthy feeling of pride derived from one’s achievements (Aicinena, 2011). Nonetheless, it has become too easy for people to…

In “The Odyssey”, Odysseus’s hubris is an advantage because it tricks individuals into viewing the almighty epic hero as more of an iconic and courageous figure. When Odysseus and his crew, cleverly fight off and get past the horrendous cyclops Polyphemus, Odysseus bravely taunts the beast to make sure he knows never to attack him or his crew again. In fury, Polyphemus pounds out to Odysseus’s boat, forcing Odysseus to get the “longest boat hook out” and begin “fending off” his crew (95-96).…

because he does not cause the failure, he did not choose to get fired and his sons career to fail. He does have a hubris that caused him to do many of the actions that he did The story Death of a Salesman is a play written by Arthur Miller that goes through a troubled salesman willy loman who encounters many problems. He has many details of a tragic hero, his most noticeable ones are his Hubris, which is his excessive pride, and his reversal of fate. Many…

described by Aristotle must have certain qualities and evoke emotions throughout a dramatic tragedy: Catharsis, Hamartia, Hubris, Peripeteia, and Nemesis. The fatal flaw known as Hamartia, contributes to the characters demise or downfall, which ultimately ends in their death. In Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick, Captain Ahab who also serves as captain of the Pequod, demonstrates Catharsis, Hubris, and Hamartia- all the characteristics a tragic hero obtains. The Captain evokes emotions of pity, fear,…