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	Tragic hero - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A tragic hero is a protagonist who is otherwise perfect except for a tragic flaw, also known as fatal flaw, which eventually leads to his demise.
		In the Modernist era, a new kind of tragic hero was synthesized as a reaction to the English Renaissance, The Age of Enlightenment, and Romanticism.
		A tragic hero was considered to need a catharsis, or a moment of emotional purgation, but it comes at a time when it is too late to change the course of events already in motion.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tragic_hero (846 words)

	Tragic flaw -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Tragic flaw, derived from the (A native or inhabitant of Greece) Greek word hamartia, which is also translated in religious works (i.e.
		A tragic flaw in (Creative writing of recognized artistic value) literature is a series of actions the neither thoroughly good nor evil (The principal character in a work of fiction) protagonist (often called the (Click link for more info and facts about tragic hero) tragic hero) takes, that eventually brings him down in the end.
		An example of a protagonist with a tragic flaw in modern literature would be (Click link for more info and facts about Willy Loman) Willy Loman in (Click link for more info and facts about Death of a Salesman) Death of a Salesman.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/t/tr/tragic_flaw.htm (414 words)

	Wep Flaw (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Flaw maintains that they must keep a good relationship with their fans to sustain longevity.
		Flaw is vastly different from the run of the mill nu-metal band in a multitude of ways, as became very apparent in their second album Endangered Species.
		Flaw has said they are mainly a live band, and that couping up in a studio is not their "thing", and their live preference is apparent in their music.
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	Tragicflawpage
		Aristotle said that the tragic hero should be someone of rank or importance with a tragic flaw, who suffers a “reversal of intention” that eventually leads to his or her death.
		The tragic flaw is some weakness in character that is responsible for action or inaction on the part of the tragic hero and leads to the reversal of the hero’s original intention.
		Aristotle also felt that the tragic hero should not initially be an out-and-out villain and that he or she should not first exhibit evil, but only frailty, the tragic flaw.
	www.horton.ednet.ns.ca /staff/sheppard/Tragicflawpage.htm (1243 words)

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		Aristotle said that the tragic hero should be someone of rank or importance with a tragic flaw who suffers a “reversal of intention” that eventually leads to their death.
		The tragic flaw is some weakness in character that is responsible for action or inaction on the part of the tragic hero.
		Brutus’ tragic flaw is his sense of honour.
	www.horton.ednet.ns.ca /staff/sheppard/TRAGFLAW.DOC (2910 words)

	Antigone (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Tragic Flaw (Hamartia): the tragic hero must "fall" due to some flaw in his own personality.
		Part of what makes the action "tragic" is to witness the injustice of what has occurred to the tragic hero.
		Tragedy: A drama or literary work in which the main character is brought to ruin or suffers extreme sorrow, especially as a consequence of a tragic flaw, a moral weakness, or an inability to cope with unfavorable circumstances.
	www.ccaurora.edu /hum121/antigone.htm (647 words)

	PlanetPapers - Hamlet's Tragic Flaw
		Hamlet's tragic flaw is not that he is motivated by ambition.
		In conclusion, Hamlet's tragic flaw is neither external difficulties nor his motivation by ambition.
		Hamlet's tragic flaw is not simply that he acts in haste, it's his imbalance of action and thought.
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	Free Essay Shakespeare - Tragic Hero (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		These qualities were a tragic flaw, or harmartia, they all were from a noble class, with very human personalities, and they all face their tragedy with dignity.
		While the tragic flaw is the key element in a tragedy, the tragic hero’s social status is also of high importance.
		Through his great many tragedies Shakespeare developed each tragic hero beautifully, making sure that each harbored a tragic flaw, were from the nobility, with identifiable human qualities, and faced their down fall with dignity.
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	LiteratureClassics.com -- Essay -- The Fate of Oedipus
		Tragic characters, particularly protagonists, are known to have a tragic flaw.
		Here’s one “Oedipus’ tragic flaw is his special ablility to solve riddles, his detective ability; or one might say his interlect.
		Here is another theory; LThe flaw, or the crak in Oedipus’ character is nothing, and need be nothing, but his inherent willingness to remain passive in the face of what he concieves to be a challenge to his dignity, his image of his rightful status.
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	TragedyLecture
		Contributing to, and furthering the obsession and the control of the tragic flaw are misreadings, supernatural suggestion, and accident or chance.
		As the flaw and the misreadings continue, new conflicts and complications arise which bring about the death or gradual alienation of all forms of support for the hero, so that by the end, he must face the opposing forces and the responsibility for his actions alone.
		A sense of inevitability begins to advance as we watch the tragic hero alienating his allies and closest supporters, until he is all alone and with his back to the wall in the 5th act.
	global.cscc.edu /engl/264/TragedyLex.htm (3284 words)

	Macbeth Tragic Flaw Essay - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		One of Macbeth's tragic flaw is marrying Lady Macbeth., who is obsessed...
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	AP College English - Period 4/5-6/7-10 - Heidkamp - Oak Park River Forest High School - 2004-2005 - Blog - Blogging the ...
		Ira's tragic flaw in addition to not being able to listen to people is the fact that he's sometimes OVERLY passionate about things.
		Posted by: Ari F. January 6, 2005 10:07 AM I agree with Elise when she says that Ira's tragic flaw is that his is OVERLY passionate.
		It seems that the main reason he is such a powerful character is because of his passion for the things he's involved in, but because of his lack of intelligence he doesn't know everything that goes along with what he is passionate about and the results that come with being so passionate.
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	Literary Terms for Tragic Heroes page
		The tragic hero will most effectively evoke both our pity and terror if he is neither thoroughly good nor thoroughly evil but a combination of both.
		The tragic effect will be stronger if the hero is "better than we are," in that he is of higher than ordinary moral worth.
		Such a man is shown as suffering a change in fortune from happiness to misery because of a mistaken act, to which he is led by his hamartia (his "effort of judgment") or, as it is often literally translated, his tragic flaw.
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	Shakespeare and the Tragic Virtue
		Instead of speaking of tragic flaws, therefore, we may say that Macbeth is predisposed to seek advancement through military prowess, that Othello is predisposed to trust his fellow man, that Hamlet is predisposed to be contemplative, that Lear is predisposed to express his identity through his position as King, and so forth.
		It might therefore be more helpful to speak of tragic virtue than of a tragic flaw, of the hero as a man elected or selected for his fate because of his greatness, rather than spotted because of his folly.
		The "tragic flaw" does violence to the mode of thought concerning the tragic experience in the period, whereas the "tragic virtue" captures the essence of that mode perfectly.
	www.jsu.edu /depart/english/gates/shtragcv.htm (3072 words)

	Hamlet essays - Free Hamlet Essays: No Tragic Flaw in Hamlet
		It was my observation after reading Hamlet, that the play and its main character are not typical examples of tragedy and contain a questionable "tragic flaw" in the tragic hero.
		I say that the reasons Hamlet delays are all sensible and normal and don't reflect a tragic flaw on his part.
		I feel that it is his situation, the fact that he doesn't want to kill another human, and the knowledge of a Hell that his father is in that deters him from immediate action.
	www.123helpme.com /view.asp?id=11480 (844 words)

	Essays.cc - Hamlet's Hamartia
		Hamlet's tragic flaw is that he cannot act on impulse for things that require quick, decisive behavior, and that he acts on impulse for things that require more contemplation than is given by him.
		Although he is talking about his father having a tragic flaw, he states particular men (1.4.23), he is not denying that his character does not have a tragic flaw.
		Hamlet speaks of his inability to take action, his tragic flaw: Thus conscience does make cowards of us all; And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought, And enterprises of great pitch and moment With this regard their currents turn awry And lose the name of action.
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	bkegan -- Blogmeister (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Hamlet is obviously the tragic hero, but I don’t think his tragic flaw is quite so obvious.
		I know that in some cases Hamlet’s indecisiveness is viewed as his tragic flaw.
		However, I don’t really think that this is enough to constitute as a tragic flaw because it leads to his death, but not his downfall.
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	Tragic Flaw :: Tragic Flaw: A fault in a characters personality, leading to his downfall
		Tragic Flaw :: Tragic Flaw: A fault in a characters personality, leading to his downfall
		Tragic Flaw: A fault in a characters personality, leading to his downfall
		Tragic Flaw may possibly be playing with The Sign of Jonah in Ovid in the future.
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	Term Paper on Hamlet's Tragic Flaw
		Hamlet as a Tragic Hero William Shakespeare, the greatest playwright of the English language, wrote a total of 37 plays in his lifetime, all of which can be categorized under tragedy, comedy, or history.
		The Tragedy of Hamlet, Shakespeare's most popular and greatest tragedy, displays his genius as a playwright, as literary critics and academic commentators have found an unusual number of themes and literary techniques present in Hamlet.
		Hamlet was able to avenge his father's death, but his own death due to his irresolution labels him as a tragic hero.
	www.swiftpapers.com /essay/Hamlets_Tragic_Flaw-136258.html (190 words)

	SHAKSPER 1994: Re: Fate and Tragic Flaw
		As you state a little later in your probe, the idea of harmartia or tragic flaw was developed by Aristotle, not the Victorians.
		It is hard to say how the Victorian idea of tragic flaw has affected our understanding of Shakespeare's tragedies, because we all have already been biased by it.
		235 This flaw in the Hegge Pilate..approximates very closely what is generally meant in dramatic criticism as `tragic flaw', and the Hegge Pilate may be the first tragic hero in English drama.
	www.shaksper.net /archives/1994/1025.html (999 words)

	SHAKSPER 1995: Re: Tragic "Flaw" -- Hamartia; Elizabethan Education
		To blame tragedy on the flaws, deficiencies, failings (or what not) of the hero is to diminish its power.
		On the other hand, Lancelot in Malory seems to be brought down by flaws of his own rather than an indifferent wheel of fortune.
		I can't help but think that it would be more productive to concentrate on what sort of "tragic heroes" were available to Shakespeare than to notice once again the obvious fact that many of our conceptions have been received through a filter of more recent history.
	www.shaksper.net /archives/1995/0004.html (851 words)

	THE TRAGIC HERO IN ANTIGONE. Free term papers for college, book reports and research papers. Welcome to Quality Essays
		The Tragic Hero in the Play Antigone Antigone, which was written by Sophocles, is possibly the first written play that still exists today (www.imagi...
		Creon's tragic flaw causes the deaths of both his wife and son.
		By tragically losing all, one is forced to feel sympathy toward him, by doing what he always thought was right, and what he thought would further protect his kingdom, he is regarded as a hero.
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	Psychology of Cyberspace - Y2K: Apocalyptic Thinking and the Tragic Flaw
		In their quest for speed and efficiency, computer programmers of the 60s and 70s failed to predict the possibility that their simplified technique for encoding time could eventually lead to a total breakdown, the collapse of all speed and efficiency.
		Time would come back to punish them for the flawed representation of time that they built into their machines.
		Those machines are but an extension, a reflection of their creators - flawed, imperfect, and often unaware of their imperfection.
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	Research Papers on Othello's tragic flaw is his own feelings of insuperiority. Iago manipulates Othello by use of this ...
		Research Papers on Othello's tragic flaw is his own feelings of insuperiority.
		Othello's tragic flaw is his own feelings of insuperiority.
		Othello is indeed a tragedy, with Othello's self-consciousness at its core as the tragic flaw.
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	Martha Stewrt's Tragic Flaw
		She was found guilty on four counts: conspiracy, obstruction of justice, and lying to the authorities twice.
		I hope it's also clear that her downfall may have had its roots in some "flaw" in her own personality, perhaps her being (as her reputation seems to suggest) a cheapskate or tightwad.
		More love and less cynical "judgment" on someone mighty who may have fallen because of the kind of "tragic flaw" in the classical sense that most of us probably also possess (if not the same, then something like it).
	www.stevencscheer.com /marthastewart.htm (2034 words)

	The CEO Refresher - The Tragic Flaw and Emotional Intelligence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		His tragic flaw is generally described as his “suspicious nature,” his jealousy regarding his beloved Desdemona which eventually causes him to murder her and then kill himself.
		He is unable to control himself, i.e., his instincts, and ends up killing his beloved because he loves her.
		Goethe felt it to be an overactive intellect, or his grief over his father’s death paralyzed him, and the flaw was his indecisiveness.
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	Free Term Papers on hamlets tragic flaw
		Hamlet’s tragic flaw a delay in revenge, but it is “.
		Hamlet’s tragic flaw is his overwhelming delay in taking out his revenge.
		flaw if he would not have had to endure all of the hardships.
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	Academic Paper on THE TRAGIC FLAW OF OEDIPUS The tragic flaw of Oedipus that caused him suffering all his life. This is ...
		Academic Paper on THE TRAGIC FLAW OF OEDIPUS The tragic flaw of Oedipus that caused him suffering all his life.
		THE TRAGIC FLAW OF OEDIPUS The tragic flaw of Oedipus that caused him suffering all his life.
		According to Aristotle's definition, Oedipus is a tragic hero because he is a king whose life falls apart when he finds out his life story.
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