Creon's main hamartia was his excessive pride.
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Hamartia
//həˈmɑː.ti.ə//
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French
1 entries- hamartia noun (tragic flaw)
German
3 entries- Hamartie noun (tragic flaw)
- Hamartie noun (malformation of tissue)
- Irrtum noun (tragic flaw)
Polish
1 entries- Hamartia noun (tragic flaw)
Spanish
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Understanding hamartia as “ignorance of the injurious act,” Lacan distinguishes Greek tragedy from the Renaissance version on the basis that the latter supplants hamartia with the hero's privileged knowledge.
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The plot and the tragic figure at its center, destroyed through an act of hamartia, should be tailored to the production of pity and fear. Oedipus is not so much a person as he is a hamartia delivery system, a moving, empty center within the motions of the play, who through his vulnerability to hamartia and its disastrous consequences reveals the pitiable and the fearful to the audience.
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But ever since the concept of "hamartia" recurred through Aristotle's Poetics, in an attempt to describe man's ingrained iniquity, our impulse has been to identify a telling defect in those brought suddenly and dramatically low.
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