2007-09-15 12:54:21 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
Definition from Wikipedia:
An Aristotelian tragic hero must have four characteristics:
1) Nobility (of a noble birth) or wisdom (by virtue of birth).
2) Hamartia (translated as flaw or error of judgement, not an Elizabethan tragic flaw).
3) A reversal of fortune(peripetia) brought about because of the hero's Hamartia.
4) The discovery or recognition that the reversal was brought about by the hero's own actions (anagnorisis)
2007-09-15 13:02:14 · update #1
The one left out, is perhaps the most important. The Fates can deal you a completely different hand of cards any time they wish, no matter what bets you have already made.
2007-09-15 15:14:08 · answer #1 · answered by Terry 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The lesson, don't be so quick to blame others for bad things happening to you. Oh yeah, and unless you're important to begin with nobody will care if bad things happen to you.
2007-09-21 10:14:49 · answer #2 · answered by lazyslacker013 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Never trust your wife, never tick off the Gods.
2007-09-15 14:27:14 · answer #3 · answered by Pantherempress 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋