Tragic Hero

Arthur Pendragon Fit For A male monarch? Arthur was crowned magnate not only at a young age scarce to a fault completely unexpectedly. Arthur did not ask to be fagot, he was still a child and did not feel he was worthy of such a position. Arthurs lack of confidence and trust in himself defines him as a king and his ability to see. Arthurs dependency on others proves to be King Arthurs sad flaw. As a child Arthur was brought up as Sir Kay, his foster brothers, Squire. He grew up serving to others demands, it was never necessary for him to make his own decisions. Arthur secure did what he was told and tried to please Sir Kay.This flaw commencement appears in the book The marque and the Circle, Sir Kay tried to take credit for pulling the sword out of the muffin when in reality Arthur had been the one to retrieve it. Sir Kay took all the glory and was going to allow him to be unjustly crowned. Arthur did not speak up or inquiry Kays story He did not receive the credit he dese rved until Sir Kay admitted to not being the one to have relinquished the sword. Even afterward Arthur was appointed king he did not make decisions on his own. He had Merlin by his side to help him. When Merlin left King Arthur to rule on his own Arthur did not know what to do.He was left in a state of uncertainty and fell into what seemed like depression. Also In the book The Sword and the Circle, Arthur discovers the love affair between Lancelot and his wife, Guinevere, and punishes them both but Lancelot ends up rescuing Guinevere. Sir Lancelot asks for King Arthurs forgiveness and as much as Arthur would like to Gawain ordain not allow him to accept the apology. Later Sir Mordred and Sir Gawain convince Arthur to go to war against Lancelot. This leads to the splitting of the Knights of the Round Table and the battle between Sir Mordred and King Arthur, which eventually lead to King Arthurs death.If Arthur had stood by his decision and was not so easily convinced by Gawain the battle could have been avoided and Arthur could have changed the course of his and his kingdoms fate. On many other accounts King Arthurs decisions depended on the influence of others, this being one of his tragical flaws can be held accountable for the downfall of King Arthur and his Kingdom. Although technically Arthur was born to be king he did not possess the attributes to be one. He had to compensate in other ways to make up for his weakness, but overall this personality fluke immobilizes Arthur from becoming the great king he had the potential to be.Tragic Hero* Macbeth as a tragic hero question In Macbeth written by William Shakespeare, Macbeth who is the main character is a tragic hero that suffers from Hamartia which is ambition in Macbeths character and that leads him to his downfall, A tragic hero character according to Aristotle must be moral, have virtues and suffers from Hamartia which is a flaw in character that eventually leads to his defeat and downfall at the end of the play. Macbeth is a great person who was a brave warrior in addition a great leader who won several wars for his king as the dramatist shows him in the first pages of the play.Macbeth is great physically and morally, in one hand his physical skills achieved in the battle scenes as the dramatist shows him as a brave warrior who always achieve victory to his country besides he was called Brave Macbeth and Belladonnas bride groom, in the other hand Duncan his king well-likes, trusts and respects him because of his moral greatness and kindness and thats what makes his wife Lady Macbeth affirmed that he is morally great when she says he is the too full of the take out of human kinds.Ambition is the tragic flaw / Hamartia of Macbeth which leads to his defeat he was affected by the prophecies of the three witches. However the first prophecy of the three witches fulfilled and that Macbeth will be the Thane of Cawdor this was the first step for Macbeth to be ambition to the idea o f becoming a king.Here begins the evil side of Macbeth to show as he changes from being a noble man to evil one, he has virtues and morals at the beginning of the play and he was honourable man who was respected and admired by his king and then he became an evil man who want to do anything just to take the crown for himself and be the king instead of Duncan, this clarify that he is witting of what he has done and he committed the tragic mistake opened eyed.In addition his wife Lady Macbeth was very interested in becoming a Queen so she starts to encourages and convinces him to decide upon a solution which can makes them be a King and Queen, she succeed in convincing him that his fate is to be the king, which make him kill the king Duncan, that shows the character of Lady Macbeth as a very ambition woman who was determine that Macbeth must be the king. After Macbeth committed the first crime of killing the kind Duncan Macbeths character begin to overthrow and he starts to become ups et from the idea that he become a murderer and he begin to say that all he water in the world cannot wash Duncan blood of his hands, this shows that he starts to realize the guilt that has been done by him and the crime affected him that he starts to imagine Duncans murder scene over and over which shows the reversal of his character and that he didnt care to the highest degree the consequences of the crime at the beginning but now he realize what hes done was terrible, besides after he killed Banquo half of him wishes that he had never done the murders and the other half tells him that he already committed the crimes and he cannot go back and whats done cannot be undone.