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Definition of Tragic flaw
1. Noun. The character flaw or error of a tragic hero that leads to his downfall.
Definition of Tragic flaw
1. Noun. (chiefly literary criticism) A personality trait or other characteristic of a real or fictional individual which is immoral, destructive, or otherwise faulty and which leads to the ruin or profound suffering of that individual. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tragic Flaw
Literary usage of Tragic flaw
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Preventing Deadly Conflict edited by David A. Hamburg, Cyrus R. Vance (1998)
"Violent conflict is not simply a tragic flaw in the cultural inheritance and
history of certain groups. Violent conflict results from choice—the choice of ..."
2. Aristotle on the Art of Poetry: An Amplified Version with Supplementary by Aristoteles, Lane Cooper (1913)
"[For many, the tragic flaw of the hero, described as an ' error of judgment', or
a ' shortcoming', needs immediate illustration. The single Greek word, ..."
3. Methods and Materials of Literary Criticism: Lyric, Epic and Allied Forms of by Charles Mills Gayley, Benjamin Putnam Kurtz (1920)
"... upon the necessity of the action being historical, and remote in time, upon
the desirability of perfect characters or those with a tragic flaw, ..."
4. The Evils of Necessity: Robert Goodloe Harper and the Moral Dilemma of Slavery by Eric Robert Papenfuse (1997)
"In the end, he was unable to overcome this tragic flaw. On Harper's gravestone
opposite Lady Liberty, a Latin inscription reads, "Vir cui ad summam ..."
5. Man, Economy, and State with Power and Market: A Treatise on Economic by Murray Newton Rothbard (2004)
"Excess wealth has suddenly replaced poverty as the tragic flaw of capitalism.89 At
first sight, these latter charges appear contradictory, for capitalism is ..."
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