hamartianoun [ C or U ]
/ˌhɑː.mɑːˈtiː.ə//ˌhɑː.mɑːrˈtiː.ə/literarya character fault or a mistake that causes someone to fail or be destroyed:
Just like Greek tragedy, reality TV plays with hubris and hamartia, with faulty self-images and mistakes that prove catastrophic.
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- In the play, Heracles is a great hero and does many great deeds, but his one flaw, his hamartia, is madness, which makes him kill his family.
- Hamartia is the name used to describe the fatal flaw that brings about the undoing of the hero in classical Greek tragedy.
- True Aristotelian hamartia arises when mistakes or errors cause the plot or direction of action to change in a tragic way.
- This failure to act must lead to a change in fortune for the main character in order for it to truly be a hamartia.
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