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Aristotle’s Tragic Hero By Gwen Alvord personal.monm.edu/ ysample/aristotle.htm www.ilt.columbia.edu/.../ bio _aristotle.html

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Aristotle’s Tragic Hero

By Gwen Alvord

personal.monm.edu/ ysample/aristotle.htmwww.ilt.columbia.edu/.../ bio_aristotle.html

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What is a Tragic Hero?

• Someone with the potential to be great, but is doomed to fail. – Failure comes from a tragic flaw.• Aristotle calls the tragic flaw of a hero his

hamartia.

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Tragic Hero Continued…

• The tragic hero has a tragic recognition.• Despite their fall as a hero, they live on in a

moral and spiritual sense.

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Character

• The character must…– posses both good and flawed characteristics. • please the ethical sense• Evoke pity or fear in the audience

– Have a “tragic flaw” which is the cause of change in his fortune from superior to dire.

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Catharsis

• Originally used in terms of medicine, and body.

• Also used in psychological terms.–Aristotle defined it as the purging of

the emotions or relieving of emotional tensions through drama, or art.

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Catharsis’ Effect in Tragedy

• Aristotle said…– It acts as a release of pity and fear through a

theatrical performance. – Emotions are built up, but then released.

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Works Cited

• JOSEPH LOSOS, & Special to the Post-Dispatch. (2005, May 15). Oppenheimer fit Aristotle's mold of classic hero felled by tragic flaw :[Five Star Lift Edition]. [review of the ***[insert medium being reviewed]*** ***[insert title of work reviewed in italics]***]. St. Louis Post - Dispatch,p. C.10. Retrieved February 2, 2010, from US & Pennsylvania Newspapers. (Document ID: 839863741).