Literary Terms: 1 Tragic Hero, 2 Hamartia

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Name: Jayti ThakarRoll. No.38M.A. Part.1, Sem.1Paper.No.3 : Literary CriticismPresentation Topic: Literary Terms: 1.Tragic Hero. 2. Hamartia.Batch : 2015-2017.Email Id:jjayti.thakar94@gmail.com

PAPER

NO.3LITERARY

CRITICISM

LITERARY TERMS: 1. TRAGIC HERO, 2. HAMARTIA

1. Tragic Hero:

‘Tragic Hero’ – Hero of Tragedy. Aristotle says that the tragic hero will most

effectively evoke both our pity and terror (Catharsis) if he is neither thoroughly good nor thoroughly bad but a mixture of both.

Also that this tragic effect will be stronger if the hero is “better than we are”, in the sense that he is of higher than ordinary worth.

2. Hamartia:

‘Hamartia’ – Tragic Flaw, or Tragic error. Such a man (tragic hero) is exhibited as

suffering a change in fortune from happiness to misery because of his mistaken choice of an action, to which he is lead by hamartia- his “error” or “mistake of judgment” or as it is often, misleadingly and less literary translated, his “Tragic Flaw”, that lead him to his tragic end.

“Adam and Eve”: their Hamartia “Disobedience to God ”.

“Oedipus”. & his Hamartia: “Hubris & Moral Frailty.”

Conclusion with“Tragic Heroes” and their “Hamartia:”

“DR.FAUSTUS”: A Tragic Hero. & Hamartia: “Hubris”

“Hamlet” and his Hamartia: “Thinking” and “Delaying”

“Man of Thinking”

“Othello” & his Hamartia: “Act Sudden”, “Do not Think before Act”

“Man Of Action”

“Yank” from Hairy App. & Hamartia: “Superiority Complex”

Reference Book: A

Glossary of Literary Terms by

M.H.Abraham.

Prepared by: Jayti Thakar.

Submitted to: Smt. S. B. Gardi Department

of English.M. K. Bhavnagar

University.

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