A Tragic Hero Identified by Aristotle!

Hero must be noble in nature,but imperfect so that the audience can see themselves in him

Hero must understand his doom, as well as the fact that his fate was discovered by his own actions.

Hero must be physically and spiritually wounded by his experiences, often resulting in his death.

The hero must have a weakness, usually it is pride.

Tragic Hero:

• is noble and in many ways admirable
• has a tragic flaw, a personal failing that leads to a tragic end.

Aristotle defines tragedy as a process of imitating an action which has serious implications, and possesses magnitude; by means of language which has been made sensuously attractive, enacted by the persons themselves and not presented through narrative; through a course of pity and fear completing the purification of such emotions.

Tragic Hero is:
A man who is neither a paragon of virtue and justice nor undergoes the change to misfortune through any real badness or wickedness.