This is a part of my Academic Presentation of Sem-1 M.A. Submitted to Pro. Dr. Dilip Barad, M.A. Department of English MK Bhavnagar University.

1. 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 –
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• M.A Sem – 1
• Roll No – 25
• Batch – 2016-2018
• Email Id – meghatrivedi666@gmail.com
• Enrolment No - 2069108420170030

2. 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’.

3. Six part of Tragedy

4. Greek name
• Plot – Fable
• Character – Ethos
• Spectacle – Opsis
• Melody / Songs – Melos
• Diction – Lexis
• Thought - Dianoia

5. Character
• Character will support plot
• Important qualities of characters in tregedy
1) “ Good or fine”
2) “ Fitness of character”
3) “ True to life”
4) “ Consistency”
(true to themselves)
5)“ Necessary Or
probable
6) “ True to life and
Yet more beautiful”

6. 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.

7. 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”.

8. Tragic hero and his Hamartia