A tragic hero is a man who "... is highly renown and prosperous, but One who is not pre-eminently virtuous and just, whose misfortune, However, is brought upon him not by vice or depravity, but by some Error in judgment or frailty (hamartia)..." (Aristotle). As defined in Poetic...

Throughout literature authors often create complex characters who over the course of time in the work become tragic heroes. In the three works of literature that will be discussed, each of them contain a main character who suffers some sort of demise and becomes a tragic hero. The first work...