tragic hero

Question 1

What is a tragedy

Answer 1

a drama where the central characters suffer disaster and great misfortune

Question 2

What usually happens with a tragic hero

Answer 2

• noble/ high rank
• confrontation with a supirior force
• comes to understand the meaning of his or her deeds.

Question 3

what is hamartia

Answer 3

• the fatal flaw that eventually leads to his downfall

- fatal error of simple mistake that leads to the final catastrophe.

Question 4

anagnorisis

Answer 4

self relization

• moment of understanding
• increase of self awareness
• ex romeo

Question 5

Cathorsis

Answer 5

a feeling of relief
- audience feels pity and fear at first only to feel relief and exhileration at the end
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Question 6

peripteia

Answer 6

a reversal of fortune brought about by the hero’s tragic flaw.

• irreversible act that leads to the end
• climax

Question 7

domestic tragedy

Answer 7

ordinary human beings

Question 8

heroic/classical

Answer 8

protagonist is high born