Tragic Flaw

Entertainment / Literature / Tragic Flaw: Another term for the tragic hero's hamartia. See discussion under hamartia and tragedy.
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Flaw Verb Synonyms: crack, break, breach, chink, chip, fracture, rupture, fissure, cleft, split, slit, cut, gash, rent, rift, tear, rip, puncture, hole, perforation
Flaw Noun Synonyms: fault, defect, imperfection, error, mistake, blemish, blot, stain, taint, (black) mark, damage, disfigurement, failing, weakness, weak spot, loophole
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Tragic Noun Synonyms: sad, depressing, lamentable, unhappy, funereal, forlorn, melancholy, cheerless, mournful, lachrymose, dolorous, grievous, morose, lugubrious, dismal, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, pathetic(al), appalling, wretched, dreadful, awful, terrible, horrible, deplo
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Tragicomedy

Entertainment / Literature / Tragicomedy: A experimental literary work--either a play or prose piece of fiction--containing elements common to both comedies and tragedies. The genre is marked by characters of both high and low degree, even th MORE

Tragic Flaw

Entertainment / Literature / Tragic Flaw: Another term for the tragic hero's hamartia. See discussion under hamartia and tragedy. MORE

Hamartia

Entertainment / Literature / Hamartia: A term from Greek tragedy that literally means 'missing the mark.' Originally applied to an archer who misses the target, a hamartia came to signify a tragic flaw, especially a misperception, a lack o MORE

Hemingway Code

Entertainment / Literature / Hemingway Code: Hemingway's protagonists are usually 'Hemingway Code Heroes,' i.e., figures who try to follow a hyper-masculine moral code and make sense of the world through those beliefs. Hemingway himself defined MORE