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The mythical figure known as Herakles to the Greeks and Hercules to the Romans is an example of a hero possessed of enormous strength and a divine lineage, but possessed with the fatal flaw of uncontrollable anger. In a fit of rage, he kills his wife and children, he becomes the servant of King Eurysthenis and then must undertake twelve labors (extremely difficult feats) in a decade long quest to redeem himself. His struggles made Hercules the embodiment of an idea the Greeks called pathos, the experience of virtuous struggle and suffering which wo ...

A tragic hero was considered to need a catharsis, or a moment of emotional purgation, but it comes at a time when it is too late to change the course of events already in motion. Each new era of literature brings new definitions of what a hero must be in a tragedy. Aristotle's definition remains the yardstick against which all other forms of heroes are measured. Some other common traits characteristic of a tragic hero: He/she must suffer. He/she must be doomed from the start. He/she must be fundamentally ...

In the Modernist era, a new kind of tragic hero was synthesized as a reaction to the English Renaissance, The Age of Enlightenment, and Romanticism. The idea was that the hero, rather than falling calamitously from a high position, is actually a person less worthy of consideration. Not only that, the protagonist may not even have the needed catharsis to bring the story to a close. He may die without an epiphany of his destiny, or suffer without the ability to change events that are happening to him. The story may end without closure and even without the death of the her ...

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