Character in six part of Tragedy• Presented by Megha B Trivedi• Smt.S.B.Gardi Department of English MKBU• Presentation Topic – Character in six part of
Tragedy , Tragic Hero and Hamartia• Paper No – 3 Literary Theory & Criticism: Western – 1• M.A Sem – 1• Roll No – 25• Batch – 2016-2018• Email Id – [email protected]• Enrolment No - 2069108420170030
Definition of Tragedy• “ Tragedy is an imitation
of an action, serious, complete and of a certain magnitude in a language beautified in different parts with different kinds of embellishment, through action and not narration, and through scenes of pity and fear bringing about the ‘ Catharsis’ of these emotion.”
• Aristotle – Tragedy ‘ show’ rather than ‘ tells’.
Six part of Tragedy
Greek name• Plot – Fable• Character – Ethos• Spectacle – Opsis• Melody / Songs – Melos• Diction – Lexis• Thought - Dianoia
Character• Character will support plot• Important qualities of characters in tregedy1) “ Good or fine”2) “ Fitness of character”3) “ True to life”4) “ Consistency” (true to themselves)
5)“ Necessary Or probable6) “ True to life and Yet more beautiful”
Tragic Hero
• Hero of tragedy or protagonist• 1) A good man – coming to bad end• 2) A bad man – coming to good end• 3) A bad man - coming to bad end• 4) A rather good man – coming to bad
end• Ex:- Hamlet, Othello, Faustus etc.
Hamartia• The term Hamartia derives from Greek
hamartanein, which means “ to miss the mark” or “ to err”.
• “ Hamartia is an error or a mistake that a tragic character does which becomes at the end the cause of his own downfall”.
Tragic hero and his Hamartia
