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. |