Tragic flaw
Tragic Flaw is derived from the greek word hamartia which is also translated in religious works (i.e. the Bible) as sin.
A tragic flaw, in literature is a series of actions the neither thoroughly good nor evil protagonist (often called the tragic hero) takes, that eventually bring him down in the end. The concept was created in ancient Greek tragedy. More often than not, the tragic flaw is hubris, such as in the works Antigone and Oedipus Rex. Another famous tragic hero is Shakespeare's King Lear. An example of a protagonist with a tragic flaw in modern literature would be Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman. A more subtle example would be the fictionalized Antonio Salieri in Peter Shaffer's Amadeus.
See: tragic hero
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