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To: wildconservatism; GussiedUp
he is a tragic hero.

"Aristotle says that the tragic hero will most effectively evoke both our pity and terror if he is neither thoroughly good nor thoroughly evil but a mixture of both; and also that the trafic effect will be stronger if the hero is "better than we are," in the sense that he is of higher than ordinary moral worth. Such a man is exhibited as suffering a change in fortune from happiness to misery because of a mistaken act, to which he is led by his "error of judgment" through his hubris (i.e., overweening self-confidence which leads him to disregard a divine warning or to violate an important moral law.) The tragic hero moves us to pity because, since he is not an evil man, his misfortune is greater than he deserves; but he moves us also to fear, because we recognize similar possibilities of error in our own lesser and fallible selves. . . ."

He is not a tragic hero. He was glad the terrorists attacked the WTC.

247 posted on 12/03/2001 5:49:51 AM PST by nicmarlo
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To: nicmarlo
Excellent description of the "tragic hero." This guys was a flake and will suffer the associated consequences. His parents should probably share the next cell.
253 posted on 12/03/2001 8:35:59 AM PST by LiberalBassTurds
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