In the realm of the tragic hero there is always a fatal flaw in his personality that causes or precipitates his downfall. |
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Hubris, the fatal flaw of a tragic hero which blinds him to the reality of the world, is not exactly in short supply at the present. |
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Eventually, the writers took pity on their tragic hero and Timothy was allowed to fly the coop with his latest girlfriend, Pippa, at the end. |
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In Marlowe's rendition, he is portrayed as a tragic hero in that his unbridled ambitions lead him to an unfortunate end. |
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The tragic hero thus disappeared to make way for the fictional hero-and the antihero. |
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Another aspect of a tragic hero is an unwavering course of action, most likely caused by their flaw, that brings about their demise and the demise of those around them. |
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Both the object and the tragic hero will do everything it takes to accomplish their aim. |
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The tragic hero, we are told, still treats the ethical as his telos or goal, even if this entails subordinating particular duties to its attainment. |
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He is a tragic hero, terrified of himself. |
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Hernani drew on popular melodrama for its effects, exploited the historical and geographic local colour of an imagined 16th-century Spain, and had a tragic hero with whom young Romantics eagerly identified. |
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Yet he had wounded himself, just like a tragic hero. |
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The symbol of the Basque people history is Gorka's epilogue, the charismatic leader of the Commando, tragic hero in another cold December morning, five years later. |
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