The tragic hero is a character type that many people are familiar with. He is a type of character that many have seen in films or plays throughout history. Many high school students will read plays and watch films featuring tragic heroes. But many of these high schoolers may never learn what a tragic hero is. Comparing and contrasting tragic heroes such as Dimmesdale to Frome and Chillingworth to Hamlet along with the definition of tragic hero will help reveal the true nature of tragic heroes as a whole. A tragic hero has been defined by different people. Aristotle believed that the hero of tragedy should be able to arouse fear or pity in the audience. Aristotle also believed that the hero's fortunes should change from good to bad. A tragic hero will generally have some kind of flaw. They will also have to wrestle with the idea of ​​whether or not fate or free will controls their destiny. Some tragic heroes believed that one or more gods had determined their sad fate, others believed that the choices they had made of their own volition had decided their fate. Sometimes, in the end, the tragic hero will...