Tragic heroes must always be good characters turning to bad ones. True or False?

dunnoTragic heroes must always be good characters turning to bad ones. True or False?
True. I think that must be so, if not the person would be only a hero. The tragic comes into play because of certain specific items. A tragic hero usually goes through three main stages:-


Firstly, he is basically good and admired(honest, honourable, good, virtuous) but he has a certain flaw.


Secondly this flaw leads to the character making a fatal error of judgment known as his hamartia.


This error of judgment leads to the downfall of the character, his nadir until he is re-valued and reaches some degree of goodness, though not the same high level with which he started.





Without these characteristics, a tragic hero does not exist though a hero may exist. This is in the context of a real Greek tragedy, that is a real tragedy not any incident we would call tragedy.





Hope this helps!Tragic heroes must always be good characters turning to bad ones. True or False?
False.





It's not really so much that there is a tragic hero as it is that there is a hero with a tragic flaw. Studied this a lot in drama. The hero is usually, though not always, a pretty good guy, or is at least a sympathetic character. He, or she, has a tragic flaw, which proves to be their ultimate undoing. Their Achilles Heel, if you will.





So, that being said, the hero doesn't have to go from good to bad; he just has to make a 'whoops-a-daisie' or have a personal shortcoming that leads to tragedy. Which doesn't make him bad, because it is human to err.
False, a tragic hero could very well be a bad character who turned into a bad character.


Take Severus Snape, for example. He lived a miserable little life, made many villainous mistakes, but was a hero in the end.


He is a tragic character because he died before he could fully change his life, and live at least a little bit of it, to his happiness.
False aye.


I mean you've got your Macbeth, Brutus, Jay Gatsby, Willy Loman, Othello and the endless list, but you know, they weren't all bad


I mean, Romeo and Juliet were good to the end


Serverus Snape was the hero in the end. Not the enemy.


I think you're thinking along the lines of old tragic heroes like Macbeth
False--it could be the ignorant (as in unschooled) peasant boy being the butt of the townspeople.





it could be the woman who desperately wants a child but miscarries each time.





a young girl watches her one %26amp; only true love go off to war. He doesn't return, is declared MIA, but she goes to the bus station every day to wait for him. Or she sits in her window watching for him to come down the street.





It could be a battered wife, a homeless person, an orphan.





It could be a refugee from a war-torn country.
False.


A tragic hero could be a good person who did great things, but led a tragic life, or died young.


Also a hero who had a problem, say gambling, or an addiction like cocaine.
Either that, or they were just brought down by a personality or charachter flaw.
False.





Read Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy.