hamartia

There is, however, no consensus about what constitutes a proper use of hamartia.

His goal is frequently revenge, hamartia in a tragic hero.

However, hamartia cannot be sharply defined or have an exact meaning assigned to it.

Hamartia was often described as a tragic flaw, especially in discussing Greek tragedy.

Hamartia ("missing the mark") is only very approximately translated as "sin."

In Greek tragedy, stories that contain a character with a hamartia often follow a similar blueprint.

Tragedy depends on a person's failures - hamartia, their sin, error, falling short.

In modern discussions of tragedy, hamartia has often been described as a hero's "tragic flaw."

Aristotle uses the term hamartia in his book Poetics, and through the years the word has been interpreted differently.

Another example of hamartia in Greek tragedy is Antigone.

Aeschylus' The Persians provides a good example of one's character contributing to his hamartia.

This forced error is caused by the gods and the hamartia the characters engage in has been predestined since their birth.

The New Testament term for sin, hamartia, comes from the sport of archery; literally, it means "missing the mark."

(In relation to Ate and Hamartia relationship, see also Golden's article)

Thus, he developed his notion of hamartia, or tragic flaw, which was really an error in judgment by the main character or protagonist.

She dubbed him a tragic hero, "screwed by his own character flaws", and argued that this hamartia added to his depth.

Hamartia is a term derived from archery and literally means 'off the mark', signifying that one's aim has been slightly off.

A morally tinged understanding of hamartia such as this can and has been applied to the protagonist of virtually every Greek tragedy.

But sometimes it isn't, and Aristotle's word "hamartia" should not be translated "tragic flaw" but something more like "missing the mark."

Hamartia or "miscalculation" (understood in Romanticism as "tragic flaw")

It is much better if a tragical accident happens to a hero because of a mistake he makes (hamartia) instead of things which might happen anyway.

Thus, while the concept of hamartia as an exclusively moral or personal failing is foreign to Greek tragedy, the connotation is not entirely absent.

She has the "tragic spirit", or hamartia, when she feels responsible for the troubles she has caused and can't help it.

Gilmore adds that "a key element of the Greek tragedy is the idea of the protagonist's hamartia, the fatal flaw.

The hamartia, as stated, is seen as an error in judgment or unwitting mistake is applied to the actions of the hero.