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What does hamartia mean?

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Noun
  1. The tragic flaw of the protagonist in a literary tragedy.
  2. (Christianity) sin
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If hamartia is culpable error, tragedies that end up with calamities do not call into question the teleology of human events.
The terms hamartia and hubris should become basic tools of your critical apparatus.
Susan Sontag suffers from the same hamartia, according to Mendelsohn, who is endlessly fascinated by how the lack of self-knowledge makes self-betrayal inevitable.
The critic Frank Kermode corrected our mistranslation of Aristotle's word hamartia, suggesting that a more accurate and useful interpretation would be missing the mark.
What ensures the fear is, of course, the dramatization of the horrible ends to which hamartia has led.
La Numancia, the play, is consistent with just such a conception of hamartia, in that moral burden is placed on either of the two agents, Numancia or Rome.

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