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Chapter 7
Aristotle Concept of the Ideal Tragic Hero
Introduction; idealized imitation of objects in tragedy
Poetry is an imitation in which characters seem better than real life
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Hence,
tragedy presents a character in an idealized form
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They should be close to reality
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(Slow and gradual change)

Goodness
Entirely wicked person have no place in tragedy
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Thus, goodness is necessary to form a tragic play
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As for Deicer & metastasio it means “well
marked” for F
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Appropriateness
Character should be true to their particular age, profession, class, sex or status (Girls should be like girls
not men
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And their action should represent
who they are actually
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Likeness
Character should be true to life
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If we do not see
the characters as we see ourselves, the tragic emotion of pity & fear become irrelevant
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Consistency
There is to be uniformity in behavior unless there is a proper motivation for any deviation
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One is not too good or not too bad
yet whose misfortune is brought about not by vice depravity by some error or frailty
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Intermediate sort of person
For the tragedy is an intermediate sort of person who is not pre eminently good and just, yet whose
misfortune is brought about not by any vice or depravity but by some error of judgement
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He is capable of an error of judgment which is not at the same time
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Aristotle’s ideal form of tragedy is one in which the destruction of the hero or hero is caused by some
false step taken in blindness
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Tragedy is possible with saints as Shaw & Eliot has
shown but this is not a generally found fact
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