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THE KNIGHT-ATARMS AS A
TRAGIC HERO
TA S K T H R E E

TRAGIC HERO AS DEFINED BY ARISTOTLE
“A tragic hero is a literary character who
makes a judgment error that inevitably leads
to his/her own destruction
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" An Aristotelian tragic hero must possess specific
characteristics, five of which are below:
• 1) Flaw or error of judgment (hamartia) Note the role of justice and/or
revenge in the judgments
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• 3) The discovery or recognition that the reversal was brought about by the
hero's own actions (anagnorisis)
• 4) Excessive Pride (hubris)
• 5) The character's fate must be greater than deserved
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• Hero must be doomed from the start, but bears no responsibility for possessing his flaw
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• Hero must have discovered his fate by his own actions, not by things happening to him
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• Hero's story should arouse fear and empathy
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• The hero must be intelligent so he may learn from his mistakes
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• He has to be faced with a very serious decision that he has to make
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KNIGHT-AT-ARMS AS A TRAGIC HERO:
Hamartia
We can say the knights tragic flaw is his trust and love
for a woman he has seemingly just met
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This is the turning point in which
he realises he has been tricked
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” and he then realises that the
woman has betrayed him and she is a mythical
creature that seduces men and uses them takes their
power

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