hamartia
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If you’re unfamiliar with hamartia, it may sound like the sort of medication your family doctor would prescribe to ward off a series of colds or a massive coronary.
From The Guardian • Mar. 9, 2016
Pretty much ever since, critics have spent a lot of time arguing whether hamartia means a moral flaw or a tragic error.
From The Guardian • Mar. 9, 2016
Do forgive the remote diagnosis but it’s clear by now that Maria Sharapova has tested positive for hamartia.
From The Guardian • Mar. 9, 2016
An instance is provided by Aristotle's famous saying that the typical tragic hero is one who falls from high state or fame, not through vice or depravity, but by some great hamartia.
From Aristotle on the art of poetry by Bywater, Ingram
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The Fault in Our Stars
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