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tragic flaw

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meanings of tragicand flaw


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tragic
adjective
uk /ˈtrædʒ.ɪk/ us /ˈtrædʒ.ɪk/
very sad, often involving death ...
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flaw
noun[C]
uk /flɔː/ us /flɑː/
a fault, mistake, or weakness, especially one that happens while something is being planned or made, or that causes something not to ...
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Examples of tragic flaw


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Some terms covered: abbreviation, burlesque, determiner, chapbook, documentary, epic, hexameter, kabuki, lacuna, paragram, proscenium, simile, tragicflaw, whodunit, zeugma.
The invasion has always lacked legitimacy, and that lack of legitimacy has been a tragicflaw.
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Often the protagonist of the play has a tragicflaw, a trait which leads to their downfall.
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In a tragedy, the protagonist here makes a bad decision, a miscalculation that demonstrates his tragicflaw.
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It's a tragicflaw in him because of his childhood.
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In modern discussions of tragedy, hamartia has often been described as a hero's tragicflaw.
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Is it his fate, his free will or his tragicflaw that causes his downfall?
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His view was that most of his heroes had a tragicflaw that made their struggles ultimately futile.
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The eponymous hero is a colossal and unpredictable hajduk, born with the necessary tragicflaw.
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Thus, he developed his notion of hamartia, or tragicflaw, an error in judgment by the main character or protagonist.
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Richard is unable to integrate his human and werewolf natures, and this tragicflaw haunts him throughout the series.
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He has no tragicflaw.
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What ensues is a confrontation with the tragic flaws of the over-consuming bourgeoisie.
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