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Posted by zeah on April 03, 19103 at 21:47:51:
In Reply to: Aristotle's Tragic Hero & Oedipus posted by Minerva on October 06, 1998 at 18:46:25:
: According to Aristotle the tragic hero evokes our pity and terror if he is neither thoroughly good nor thoroughly evil but a mixture of both. The tragic effect is stronger if the hero is more moral than we are. The tragic hero suffers a change in fortune from happiness to misery because of a mistaken act which he performs due to his hamartia-'error of judgement'- one form of hamartia is hubris-'pride' which leads the tragic hero to ignore or violate a divine warning or moral law. The tragic hero evokes our pity becuase he is not evil and his misfortune is greater than he deserves, and he evokes our fear because we realize we are fallible and could make the same error. It would appear from Aristotle's definition that Oedipus could be described as a tragic hero.
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