who are other literary characters who have become victims of their own weaknesses or forces of nature?

Question

aside from achilles and oedipus... thanks

Answer 1

Hamlet - tragedy of destiny, so he was a victim of fate;
Tess D'Urbervilles - tragedy of fate;
most of the characters in Zola's novels;
Moll Flanders, victim of her weaknesses;
try reading some of late 19-th century novels, and same modern plays that reinterpret ancient subjects.

Answer 2

Madame Bovary