Hedda Gabler - A Tragic Hero?

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English

 

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February 3, 2015

 

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Aristotle goes on to describe the tragic hero as a character that has the ability to induce our sympathy and terror, especially since he or she is not necessarily good or evil, but instead, the character is a mixture of both qualities. Through the course of the play, the tragic hero will experience suffering through a change in happiness to despair because of an error or mistaken act...
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The error itself is led by the hero’s hamartia and regarded by some scholars as his or her tragic flaw. The hamartia eventually causes a recognition known as anagnorisis and a reversal in action known as peripeteia. Aristotle believed that a tragedy should contain the following elements: a portrayal of the hero’s innate goodness and superiority; an error which leas to an eventual downfall; a realization in which the hero has realized his own destruction; and a change in events that exceeds the audience’s expectations (Aristotle)...
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