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The great poet and philosopher Aristotle was a highly intellectual man who loved to reason. One of his ideas was his structured analysis of the quintessential “tragic hero” of Greek drama. In his work Poetics he defines a tragic hero as “...The man who on the one hand is not pre-eminent in virtue and justice, and yet ....
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.... downfall is that he marries his mother and kills his father. He is blinded by his hubris and is the agent of his own destruction. The completion of Oedipus’ downfall is realization of his folly. He is then led to blind himself by his own hand and be banished from his own children and city according to his own decree. Oedipus is a victim of the Greek’s most powerful force – fate.
Aristotle says that a tragic hero will be sympathized and pitied. He says that they “excite pity and fear.” This is true in most respects for Oedipus in that he was once a greatly respecte ....
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