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Definition of the Aristotle Tragic Hero

Aristotle, who was a great Greek philosopher, was a lover of poetry and a literature-rich

person as he mechanized complex classical tragedy. tragic hero is a character who faces A [4]

adversity or portrays courage in the face of danger and during the downfalls which come along

their way, they decisively confront them and thus becoming a hero or the protagonist in the play.

However, in other settings, the tragic hero is displayed as a character who demonstrates who

evokes an aspect of pity and fear in the audience since is a man of misfortunes that come to him

through the horror of judgment. Aristotle referred to the challenges or the downfalls as tragedies

which come about as a result of fate or by his own mistakes or otherwise due to the various

social reasons ( Frye 46-68).

Aristotle used his character, Oedipus Rex as an example of a tragic hero and helps him

exemplify the aspect of the protagonist throughout his work. Oedipus is a character who

demonstrates many of the characteristics of a real tragic hero. As an example of a perfect tragic

hero, he comes out as a person who has hubris or excess pride so that he becomes blind to the

plain truth. He refuses to lend ears to the wise men such as Tiresias, who makes a prediction that

Oedipus has killed his father, Laius ( The tragic nature is outlined in Adade-Yeboah et al 23-28).

the struggles Oedipus has against his fate, perhaps which resulted from his weakness, which

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foster fear in the audience. His downfalls though are his own created problems emanating from

his weakness making him fall from his own estate and face undeserved punishment. [0]

The misapprehension of tragic hero is founded on the misreading of the word Aristotle's

Hamartia, which is eventually developed as the tragic flaw. In the development of the historic [0]

model, Oedipus is brought down by a flaw, his excess pride or the hubris which made him miss

the mark as indicated by the use of the word hamartia. In his work, its true say that the concept of

hamartia is concerned with the actions of Oedipus rather not his character which is evident in the

notion that he is a tragic characteristically flawed person who was then brought down by the

deep, internal unfitness and insufficiency for taking up the leadership and rule. Oedipus's [0]

position that he is greater than the gods, that he transcended the destiny decreed by Apollo's own

was his flaw and showed his rooted pride ( Zepf et al 685-707).

However, to understand this particular model, one has to be able to explain them as a [0]

matter of rhetoric or for political convenience, the prospects underlying the fact that Oedipus

often proclaimed the supremacy of gods and the importance of promising what their due. The

health of the people with the help of the gods would be made certain. But although this was a [0]

compelling reason and moral lesson, ideally an ahistoric reversal of the moral standards of it's

the ancient civilization which might be a base for his resistance. [2]

The tragic happenings of the king, Oedipus, originate from his flaws, emanating from the

time when he was once a small child, through his youth up to the time when he was grown up

and while he is the king. He goes through the so many challenges as a result of his own [3]

weakness, further exemplifying the tragic hero realities. While Aristotle's definition of the tragic [4]

hero is having tremendous downfalls due to their own weakness, this is essentially what makes

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the story Oedipus. The king struggled through a number of challenges in his era. The land that is

ruled by king Oedipus, Thebes is experiencing plague for which Oedipus is committed to overt.

Nevertheless, the actions and intentions to rid the land of the plagues were purely out of king's

love for his people, little did he know he was welcoming trouble in his own life that eventually

led to the pitiful fate (( Zepf et al 685-707).

Determined to relieve the people of Thebes of the plague, he sends out his brother in law,

Creon to the House of the Apollo (believed to deliver the message from the gods) to inquire the

oracles of how it was possible to end the plague. Upon return, Creon informed the king that once [5]

the killer of the previous king, Laius is found, then Thebes would be healed of the plague. Since [5]

this was the prophetic solution to the current stalemate, Oedipus vows to find the killer and

banish him, only he knew he had deco ted the grave where he would be buried. The Chorus ra

(voice of the people of Thebes) demanded the king consults Teiresias, the blind prophet. [1]

When Teiresias was brought to the king, initially he became reluctant to let the king get

the answers for his question citing that the king is not willing to know the answer, but after the

king threatens Teiresias with death, he breaks the news that the king himself was the killer of

Laius, and further insinuates that his marriage was a sinful union. Taking issue with the response,

the king concludes that Creon was the one who had bribed Teiresias to say what he said. Even

with the second oracles of the prophecy ( , Oedipus does not believe the gods, Zepf et al 685-707)

which makes his challenges amplified. When he dismisses Teiresias out of fury of what he

disclosed, Teiresias walked out announcing to the people of Thebes that Laius killer is right

before him, revealing that he was his father's killer and his mother's husband, and prophesied that

although he came seeing, he will leave blind a prophecy that comes true at the end of the kings

era.

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Oedipus in his defense or struggles to fight out of his woes, he blames Creon where he

charges him with treason, however, the intervention of Jocasta and Chorus made the king free

him, though against his will. Jocasta misleads the king that there is no truth with the oracles of

the prophets, a thing that heightens the flaws of the failure to believe in the divine power. king's [1]

To justify her claims, Jocasta gives a story that long ago, oracles told his Laius that his son

would kill him and as a result, he and Jocasta gave their infant son to a shepherd so that he can

be left in the hillside and die with a pin through its ankles ( However, Laius was Carlson 33-51).

murdered by robbers but not his own son, proofing that the oracles were not right. Oedipus

realizes something strange with his story because the place where his father was killed wife's

corresponds to the place where he killed a stranger. To unravel the dilemma, Oedipus sent out for

the only shepherd witness of his death who claimed that five robbers had killed him. The father's

kin wishes that the witness confesses the killers of his Laius were the five robbers, and then he

would be spared and exonerated ( Erskine 5-20).

King Oedipus once ignored the oracles while he was young as he confirms to Jocasta that

the stories shared by her had some similarity with his past. Once a young person, he met a man [8]

who informed him that his parents were not his real father and mother and when he went to the

oracles to establish his lineage, he was told that he would kill his father and marry his mother. He

became furies, left his hometown and never returned, disobeying the gods. On his way, he came

across a man at the crossroad and killed the man because of insulting him, which makes him

scared that this man could be his father ( Zepf et al 685-707).

His curiosity of knowing the truth about his downfalls made him became more fearful of

the revelation, but yet he insisted to know. When Jocasta knew the truth, she discouraged

Oedipus from doing an investigation into the matter but then, he had promised to do it before the

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people of Thebes so as to remove the plague. Jocasta left the palace after learning of the truth an

unsuccessfully pleading with Oedipus to drop the investigations. The old shepherd finally reveals [7]

that the king was indeed the son of Laius and Jocasta and the same boy who was left in the

hillside to die due to the oracle prophecy ( The truth was devastating and it Zepf et al 685-707).

marked the Oedipus exit of the palace. Wanting to kill Jocasta, Oedipus left out with a sword to

look for her, only to find her having hanged herself in her room. Oedipus he removed his eyes

with the sword and asked to be banished from the land, leaving his daughters with Creon and

marking the pitiful tragic end of Oedipus family.

From the tragic occurrences of the Sophocles “Oedipus”, Oedipus the king so well

exemplified the characters of a tragic hero. According to Aristotle, a tragic hero experiences his

own downfall as a result of their own weakness, which makes the critical development of this

story, where the king suffered his own negligence.

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