No Tragic Flaw in Hamlet After reading Hamlet I observed that the play and its main character are not typical examples of tragedy and contain a questionable "tragic flaw" in the tragic hero. I chose this topic because Hamlet is a tragedy, but very different from classical tragedies like Medea. I also found many controversial debates about the work and its main character. Reading my notes, I discovered that, according to Aristotle, "the tragic hero will most effectively evoke both our pity and our terror if he is neither completely good nor evil but a mixture of both; and also that the effect tragic will be stronger." if the hero is better than us in the sense of having a higher than ordinary moral value, such a man is shown to undergo a change of fortune from happiness to unhappiness due to a wrong act, to which he is led by his hamartia. ("error of judgment") or his tragic flaw." It is important that this is clear, because I intend to demonstrate, to begin with, how Shakespeare makes Hamlet an atypical tragedy, and how controversial the issue of Hamlet's tragic flaw is. So much so to begin with, Shakespeare's Hamlet is an atypical play, because the format of the play does not conform to the traditional Aristotelian concepts of the 3 unities. Shakespeare does not conform to the unity of time, place or action a "comedy within a comedy", subplots and its action is not set in one day, but in several days. According to Aristotle, the play should last one day impact of the tragedy. Unlike Medea and Oedipus, which contain virtually no humor, the play Hamlet has several comic moments. The final difference I found is the stature of the character. In older plays such as Oedipus, the heroes are mainly kings. Hamlet, on the other hand, is a prince; his stature starts out smaller than normal. As I read Hamlet, I came to the conclusion that even though this is a tragedy, the hero's supposed flaw is not like those of classical tragedies. As far as I know, the flaw that I could identify that best suited Hamlet was sloth. . . as well as the critics themselves.
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