What is Hamartia - The Secret to Writing a Tragic Flaw
What is Hamartia in Storytelling - we will look into the function of the tragic flaw aka hamartia in tragedy, as explained by Aristotle, along with tips on how to write characters with these deep-seated imperfections.
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Chapters:
00:00 - Introduction to Character's Tragic Flaws
00:49 - What is Hamartia?
02:54 - Chapter 1: Show the Consequences: Hamlet
06:44 - Chapter 2: Make It Central to the Story: Black Swan
11:49 - Chapter 3: Chance to Change: Burn After Reading
15:40 - Final Takeaways
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WHAT IS HAMARTIA IN STORYTELLING (AND HOW TO WRITE IT)
To varying degrees, all characters should have faults. These can be minor problems that provide more superficial obstacles, or they can be major weaknesses that bring forth a character’s downfall. In this video, we will look at these more serious, tragic flaws, what Aristotle dubbed hamartia. What is hamartia, how does it work in storytelling, and what are some of the ways writers can use it to create tragic characters? Let’s find out.
WHAT IS HAMARTIA?
In his seminal work on tragedy, Poetics, the great thinker Aristotle lays out this idea that at the center of a tragic character’s downfall is a critical flaw in their behavior or how they think. At the time, the Greeks believed hamartia was a work of fate or karma. Either way, it is often manifested as a mistake, an oversight, a blind spot, a willful ignorance, etc.
EXAMPLES OF TRAGIC FLAW
Aristotle wrote about contemporary Greek tragedies, but we can see hamartia throughout storytelling since then. Dr. Frankenstein’s tragic flaw is his blind confidence in scientific progress and a lack of foresight regarding the consequences of playing God. In There Will Be Blood, Daniel Plainview’s hamartia is tied directly to his greed.
Hamlet’s indecision plunges him into despair. In Black Swan, Nina’s insatiable drive for perfection leads her to self-destruction. And in the Coen Brothers' satirical comedy Burn After Reading, each character in the ensemble has a tragic flaw that contributes to their own demise.
HOW TO WRITE A TRAGIC FLAW
The tragic flaw itself can be various, but there are some strategies writers use to make them work, no matter the character, genre, or story. For one, the consequences of their hamartia must be shown. In any tragedy, the aftermath is where the real resonance occurs - it is the payoff following the setup that audiences expect.
Second, a character’s hamartia should be central to the story. In the Black Swan example, the plot finds Nina pursuing the lead role in Swan Lake, which perfectly sets the stage for her insecurities and obsessions to take hold. Finally, a good tip on how to write hamartia is to allow the characters a chance to overcome their tragic flaw. Since hamartia is more than simply “bad luck,” it is important that the fate of the characters hinges upon the decisions they make.
Not every story is a tragedy, but writers who understand the power and function of hamartia are able to apply similar aspects while crafting rich and nuanced stories.
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Chapters: 00:00 - Introduction to Character's Tragic Flaws 00:49 - What is Hamartia? 02:54 - Chapter 1: Show the Consequences: Hamlet 06:44 - Chapter 2: Make It Central to the Story: Black Swan 11:49 - Chapter 3: Chance to Change: Burn After Reading 15:40 - Final Takeaways
00:49- hamartia is the word for sin in the New Testament.
It's easy to write a character with a tragic flaw, what's hard is writing a story where the tragedy also has poetic irony, the most common example being a protagonist who, in attempting to avoid their downfall, unknowingly cause it. Try to give your characters flaws that are loaded with deeper meaning and that resonate with the larger themes of the story.
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Poetic irony, a beauty of contradictions.
Can we get an example of this? (Like a reference to a specific movie or two?)
@@T-roccBABY Macbeth would be the classic example.
I think an excellent example is everyone in Arcane on Netflix. At any point any one of them could have made a different choice to produce a better outcome, but any such alternate decision would have been so out of character that what happened was always the only truly possible outcome. A perfect tragedy, and I love it.
I love it to! I feel like the only exception to this rule in Arcane (and I'm absolutely certain this was intentional on their part) is Marcus. We don't know enough about him in act 1 for his choices to seem like "the only in-character choice", but it also shows that it's not necessary to do all of that for a side character (and the show does put plenty of work into writing it's other side characters, so it's really a "unless you are trying to be better than us, writing a Marcus is enough for your story"). As long as you don't have contradictions or unreasonable decisions, side characters can get away with anything.
Great video, but just to clarify exactly what Hamartia means as it is often misinterpreted. The term in the original Greek sense means "to miss the mark" and was an archery term which was utilised by Aristotle to explain the cause of a tragic heroes' downfall. Crucially, it does NOT mean a "Tragic Flaw" in the general sense, but more specifically is a mistake made by the character which leads to their downfall. This of course can be rooted in a personal characteristic that leads to that mistake being made, but ultimately it is the action itself that leads to the downfall, rather than a flaw of character. For example with Oedipus, perhaps the most famous Greek tragic hero, his hamartia might be considered his attempt to escape his fate - which is a mistake but not a character flaw. Aristotle in the Poetics says on this issue: "For Tragedy is an imitation, not of men, but of an action and of life, and life consists in action, and its end is a mode of action, not a quality. Now character determines men's qualities, but it is by their actions that they are happy or the reverse. Dramatic action, therefore, is not with a view to the representation of character: character comes in as subsidiary to the actions. Hence the incidents and the plot are the end of a tragedy; and the end is the chief thing of all. Again, without action there cannot be a tragedy; there may be without character." Aristotle's point is quite simple - tragedies in life can occur when the person who it happens to has done nothing wrong, for example a natural disaster like a flood, - and since art imitates life this should be reflected in the plot of tragedy also. Oedipus did not ask to be cursed at birth, but his downfall came from the mistaken belief that he can escape his fate. This doesn't detract from the video which was great, but hopefully clarifies how the term Hamartia can have a bit more of a nuance to it than just being a "Tragic Flaw".
Correct! This is also the problem with everyone using Hamlet as an example of "tragic flaw" Hamartia - they think he must have some character failing that precipitates the tragedy. Indecision is what they always identify (what Olivier called "the tragedy of a man who could not make up his mind"). Never mind that Shakespeare is writing from a totally different tragic engine than what the Athenian playwrights used and Aristotle identified. Hamlet's tragedy is that he's forced to sacrifice his soul in pursuit of revenge. He repeatedly says that he doesn't want to become a murderer, that he suspects that his father's ghost may be the devil, that there has to be another way. Murder is murder, even if it's for a good cause. He's not indecisive - he actively spends most of the play trying to avoid committing a mortal sin in pursuit of justice. If anything, his moments of missing the mark come when he lashes out in rash anger, leading to the deaths of people who aren't his uncle. To every 9th grader who asks why Hamlet doesn't kill Claudius right away: oh, is killing easy? Could you do it? Would there not be any consequences? Ironically, a character who spends the whole story trying to do the right thing often finds that they're in an impossible bind, with no right thing available to do. In their eagerness to do SOMETHING, they end up choosing one of many wrong things and sparking a tragedy. That doesn't mean that they're personally flawed, but rather that any attempt at action was going to fail.
Ok but that's not what it means now
Hamartia as a concept hasn't changed, only people's perception of it. I'm just suggesting how people can get a bit more nuance out of the video from broadening their interpretation of the concept and thinking about it's original literary intention @@stoppit9
I have often wondered if there is a connection between hamartia and the Golden Mean with "the mark" being missed is the balance of virtue in-between the two vices of the extreme. I will add that 300 years after Aristotle, the word hamartia is used in the Greek New Testament and translated into English as the word "sin".
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I watched Black Swan countless times. One of my favorite psychological thrillers I've watched, together with Mulholland Drive and The Silence of the Lambs
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I think that Hamlet scene was a little over-simplified. For anyone unfamiliar/needing a refresher, Hamlet didn't just stop himself from killing his uncle during confession due to meaningless indecision. He actually realized that if he were to kill his murderous uncle during a confession in this holy place, there was a CHANCE that his uncle may be forgiven his sins, shown mercy, and allowed into heaven. So rather than take this prime opportunity for vengeance now, he opted to delay until a better opportunity where his uncle would be duly delivered his damnation. This scene in the play was not meant to show "indecisiveness as a flaw," but rather, a trait of either shrewdness, cool-headedness, patience, or cunning. It was meant to be one of MANY traits Hamlet had, like how later he showed his impatience and hot-headedness. He was able to be passionate or pragmatic, devious or meloncholic. That's one of the hallmarks of Hamlet the character, the fact that he is so complicated and has so many contradictory traits. So the idea of trying to boil him down to one thing is missing a lot of the point. That said, that's about the play. I haven't seen the movie.
This concept of Hamartia / the downfall of a character's personality traits is what gives character's and writing so much depth, and is missing in some blockbuster's today, even though I'm no expert in writing, I watch a lot of movies from all eras and believe when writing a good character they should have a good amount of depth and should contribute to the overall story in a small or big way, but the key to writing a good character is depth.
Rings of Power, Captain Marvel and the latest star wars trilogy, all feature unblemished protagonists for the sake of political correctness
@@LuisSierra42 Yes definitely, this is bad writing, no one is perfect, we all have flaws, those examples you mentioned pretty sums up modern Hollywood and how bad the writing is vs old Hollywood with better character depth, writers today should write characters with depth, have them be more three dimensional, that way a character can learn their faults and learn to be better, but if the character doesn't learn a lesson at least it can give the audience something to think about.
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One character that I really like is Monster Girl from Invincible. The idea of her character is that every time she uses her powers, she grows one week younger. Even though she’s 25, she looks 13 and she’s only getting younger. She could stop being a hero and live a normal life, but instead she joins the Guardians knowing that it’ll be her doom. She doesn’t have too much screen time so far, but there’s a lot of room to experiment with that concept
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I agree that this video would make an excellent teaching resource, although I would hesitate to include the example of 'Hamlet.' Mine may be an unfashionable opinion in literary circles, but I simply cannot agree that Hamlet's character arc is an example of hamartia; in fact, I would argue that his so-called 'indecision' is not a tragic flaw at all; it is, in fact, Hamlet's virtue. In the figure of the Dane, we bear witness to an aspirational hero. He is the thinking man who considers his actions before he takes them, and this is why he famously pauses before enacting his revenge. The fact that he accidentally murders Polonius is merely an abject lesson in what happens when one surrenders to passion to become an 'action hero.' Had Hamlet been more 'decisive' (in other words, unthinking), he would have been Laertes. Ophelia's brother is offered up to the audience as an 'alternate Hamlet' (one minus the contemplative nature), to illustrate that a man who is all fiery emotions simply winds up a weapon to be pointed at the hero by an unscrupulous politician. This is why Hamlet's and Laertes' (and, for that matter, Fortinbras') situations parallel so nicely; sons whose fathers are slain and seek vengeance. The difference is that only one of them possesses an intellect we can admire (or at least, should). Is 'Hamlet' a tragedy? Yes, but only because in the end the universe seems to reward and punish the wrong people (and Shakespeare was smart enough to know that true heroism does not guarantee a happy ending, and that the true hero persists, even in when 'defying the augury' of his own narrative, which is why Hamlet's words in Act 5, Scene 2 (lines 192-196) constitute the most important speech in the play). But is Hamlet a tragic hero with a tragic flaw? No.
@@benmarton7849 I could agree to a certain degree, but it's a fact that Hamlet himself muses on the "paralysis" that his endless reflections put on his situation. That is what the famous "to be or not to be" is all about. Because he doesn't choose neither of the two possible courses of action: he doesn't kill his uncle straight away (and that we could consider a good thing), but he doesn't choose to let go of the thing either. And THERE lies the crux of the matter: not choosing is what leads him and all the others to their final and tragic/bloody demise. So maybe indecision is not "his fatal flaw", in the sense of a flaw in his character, but it's his "hamartia" in the original meaning, i.e. his "sin" in that specific situation.
@@Laurelin70 and Ben, thanks for discussing this. It helps me to understand his limits.
@@Laurelin70 Thank you for your well-considered counterpoint. I do have a question, though; how are any of the deaths in the play (including Hamlet's own) actually caused by his, as you put it, 'not choosing'? The whole bloody finale is the result (albeit only indirectly) of the one moment Hamlet actually DOES act without over-thinking it. He thinks it's is step-father in the bedchamber, he chooses sudden, direct action as opposed to contemplation, and the dominoes fall from there. I tend to think this is what the play shares with 'Romeo & Juliet,' thematically; surrender to your passion, sacrifice your power to reason or be moderate, and see where it gets you...
oooooh. Thank you for pointing out characters being given the chance to change. This is extremely useful. Appreciate you
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01:19 🎭 Hamartia, or tragic flaw, is a character's fault that leads to their downfall, as defined by Aristotle in "Poetics." 02:27 💰 Hamartia often involves irony and moral lessons, like Daniel Plainview's greed leading to wealth but not true fulfillment in "There Will Be Blood." 03:51 🤔 Hamlet's tragic flaw is indecision, causing inner turmoil and disastrous consequences for himself and those around him. 05:02 ⚔️ Hamlet's indecision leads to a chain of events, resulting in unintended deaths and a tragic climax. 07:14 🦢 In "Black Swan," Nina's pursuit of perfection becomes her tragic flaw, exacerbated by the cutthroat ballet world. 10:44 🔄 Giving flawed characters chances to change can sharpen irony and moral lessons, seen in "Burn After Reading." 13:06 🗣️ Each character's downfall in "Burn After Reading" is self-inflicted, showing opportunities for change before their tragic endings. 15:00 💔 The ensemble of tragic flaws in "Burn After Reading" creates a convoluted plot with high stakes and a moral lesson about selfishness and pride.
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I just discovered the video. Writing a Tragic Flaw is such a Great challenge in storytelling. Specially for making Great Characters. Thank you StudioBinder for this Inspiring video.
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Writing a tragic flaw is best accomplished by finding something personal about a particular flaw. The emotion and experience of that flaw will draw out a written dramatic circumstance. Should be done as a writing exercise as well to better understand how things develop.
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The tragic flaw is considered to be a positive characteristic of the tragic hero and that positive part of his character some type of a virtue causes his downfall.In real life things are much more complicated than theatre and films but the point is to cause a sense of fear to the viewer that everyone can have such a similar fate
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Alexander Payne's Election describes this very well too 😁, thanks for this new insight 😘
Hamartia(αμαρτία) is a word that is still used on modern greek language and can be translated to english as "sin"
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I just came here to comment about this! Some people think that it was also an archers 🏹 term meaning to "miss the mark." It was one of the words in the Bible that was often translated into sin. Learning some of the original meanings and etymology of words is so interesting. One of the other Greek words that was often translated into "fear" from the psalms may have been closer to "awe". Then rather then being fearful of God you would be in awe. In fact even the word for devil came from balien (I think) and meant "to throw" while "parable" meant "to throw back" and "Satan" meant something like "accuser." I'm going to have to look this stuff back up because it's been awhile since I've read about it and I've forgotten too much.
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By sheer coincidence, I started watching Hamlet again last night (a favorite of mine that I haven't seen in a while), so of course I clicked when I saw Branagh in the thumbnail.
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Vanilla Sky is an example of a character who realizes his flaw, and chooses the only option available to any character in that position: the unknown.
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Cool and helpful video, but I disagree with the interpretation of Hamlet. The indecision is partly a way to let the drama play out, what would be the point of a play that was over in 15 minutes? There are reasons for his indecision-is Hamlet really going to act on the testimony of a ghost?
How does that not make indecision a flaw still
If I am a prosecutor and I am not sure whether to indict because I don’t have adequate proof, is that a personality flaw? That’s how it’s done-you don’t act without a sufficient quantum of proof and proof is external to the prosecutor. Hamlet’s confirmation comes in the mousetrap, the play to catch the conscience of the king. This is partly a play about justice.
What would you say is Hamlet's hamartia?
@@StudioBinder I might not be quick to analyze something by framing the question to determine what I am looking for. Hamlet isn’t as weak a person or as stupid as some think. The title of the play is “Hamlet, the Prince of Denmark.” That is, the future and rightful king. His destiny has been thwarted by his Uncle, and what might have been can no longer be. He is under huge pressure and in great emotional pain, more than some could bear. But he has a duty, a terrible one. He says the time is out of joint, and O’ cursed Sprite that ever I was born to set things right. Early on. Because the Christian kingdom and it’s succession have been disrupted by the Uncle. It’s true that Hamlet is a very complex character, but I don’t think he’s weak. Put yourself in his shoes, pretend you are going to play him in a film or on stage, read the text carefully, and see what pops out. Maybe that’s a better process that looking for predetermined conclusions.
I think you could loosely argue that Hamlet's hamartia is perfectionism? He knows exactly what he wants, however, he wants it to be absolutely satisfied that his revenge is ideal and lasting. But perfectionism doesn't usually exist in isolation. And if it isn't one specific preexisting flaw, is it hamartia? His grief, progressive emotional instability, and his loss of trust in those around him contribute significantly. Just some thoughts.
I'd say one of the key factors of writing a tragic flaw is that it shouldn't be a social condition of their existence. Like if you made Disney's Mulan into a tragedy, the title character's fall shouldn't come as a condition of being a woman in a man's society. It should be something like greed or childish naivete. For example, in 'Breaking Bad', Walter's damning flaw is his pride. The tragic flaw is the shadow image to the 'save the cat quality' of a hero in a dramatic narrative. In 'Hocus Pocus', the main character is a materialistic wuss who's bullied by other guys his age. But he's driven upward toward his full heroic apotheosis by his desire to save his sister. Even though he doesn't get along with her at the beginning, he loves her and rescuing/protecting her becomes central in the climax in order to redeem Thackery Binx. In a great drama, the key redeeming feature of a flawed person drives them toward becoming a full hero, but in a tragedy, the character's tragic flaw typically drives them toward becoming a full villain, if not just unraveling them completely.
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This was a great video with one exception. The "morals" given are laughably wrong, but I'll be honest, that doesn't really subtract from the point of this video
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I would love to study these videos but avoid them due to film spoilers. Is there a possibility you guys could start posting the names of films you use in the about section of your videos or the comment section? It would be great as someone who is studying filmmaking, thank you
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That’s great help, thank you! Unfortunately however, for myself, many times the specific shots used for each of the films that are referenced imply information in them that wouldn’t be present in just a list of film titles. So for example, if I hadn’t seen Black Swan I wouldn’t have seen the shot of her bleeding and falling which is the literal final shot of the film. Or if I knew nothing about Great Gatsby I would have to suspect his character arc ends terribly simply due to the shot selected at the start of the video focussing on him. If it were just a list of films it could be seen as anyones arc at that point and it wouldn’t spoil anything as he is not the protagonist, but by focussing on him it becomes obvious. It’s fairly pedantic perhaps but I hope you would consider as I’m here to learn, but also I’m here as a film fan who wants to watch the films with the freshest eyes possible. Thanks!
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Sometimes is too much, like "Titus Andronicus" /1999/ by Julie Taymor. Shakespeare’s most violent play, Titus Andronicus tells the story of the eponymous Roman general, who returns from war with the captured Queen of the Goths, Tamora. Tamora and Titus struggle for power over one another, using each other’s children as collateral.
Why is it too much?
@@StudioBinder Titus's acts of hamartia stem from his tragic flaws just as everyone else's does. Titus is just coming back from war in the beginning of the play with Goth prisoners. These prisoners included the Goth Queen, her servant, and her three sons. As is Roman war ritual, one of her eldest son needed to be sacrificed, so Titus's sons killed him. The Goth Queen swore revenge and then by chance became the Queen of Rome as well. One of Titus's sons then tried to go against Titus's wishes, so Titus killed him. This was Titus's first act of hamartia. Titus's other notable error in action is after his daughter has been abused and mutilated by an unknown person, and his sons are accused of murdering someone he lets the Queen's servant, Aaron, convince him that if he cuts off his hand and send it to the king and the king would send him his sons alive. This is Titus's other big moment of hamartia because would you believe the servant of the woman that has sworn revenge on you?
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A comedy= the protagonist overcomes their hamartia A tragedy=the protagonist fails to
I think they could fail hilariously too
Hamartia means not being witness of our own actions. Not being a witness of our life and our actions. Not understanding the truth, what really motivates us, who we really are. This is what creates confusion, therefore the tragic flow. that's why all philosophers were saying 'find out who you are'
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10:00 that is not just plain hallucinations for dramatic sake, that is schizophrenic symptoms
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It's there any version of Hamlet that's in English?
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homertia, when donuts are your tragic flaw
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What about a character who is tragically flawed, in that they have it and cannot rid themselves of that flaw and yet they somehow fail upward toward success and the fulfilment of every dream yet it is hollow because they never rise in their own esteem because they cannot see why they succeed? Say a person with severe personality disorder who writes or paints as a form of therapy that becomes an obsession and the process of creating their work feels like the boundless regurgitation of anguish. Never meaning to publish their work finds the public eye, perhaps due to an unscrupulous medical professional who is also a burgeoning art critic who longs to discover a new talent and dreams of the associated accolades. This person watches as their work lifts them from the dregs of ruination in a clinic to the peak of society and the great betrayer of their soul becomes the ringleader in the circus they are forced to perform if their pain and it winds them further into the abyss which only heightens their work. The two experience completely separate and confounding feelings but share equally in the riches and fame of their position. As one lives more and more the monk the other blossoms as a social butterfly and becomes the life of the party. But as the critic becomes the addict and the addict becomes the priest we see that aspirations whether for peace or for notoriety can be the prison we create for ourselves. I would watch that.
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Hamartia, hamartia, hamartia!
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In Greece,we still use the word hamartia. It means, sin.
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Eren Yeager's character: Flaw : He wants freedom for the people of Eldia. Irony : He does it at the expense of Genocide Moral : Freedom is not meant to be achieved at the expense of anyone's life..😊
In Eren's case his true flaw is his anger and his naivety, he's a very unstable character to begin with; his inability to forgive or to think rationally or to go about things in a more diplomatic way after finding out the real reason behind things (he could have ended things peacefully if he truly wished) also after coming to know he does not have much time left only exacerbated his primary flaw (His anger and his lust for revenge) which pushed him to insanity and made him to commit all those attrocious things that he did at the end of the story. In conclusion he made things worse for everyone in the name of correcting everything.
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I think I'd disagree that Hamlet's flaw is indecision. Perhaps it's because of the example you used - but note that Hamlet chooses not to kill his uncle because his uncle is praying. That is, his uncle would go to heaven. Hamlet wishes to punish; he doesn't seek justice but revenge.
I’ve been saying HamarSHA for the last ten years….😬
Better late than never!
Great as usual. But I was wondering Burn After Reading: If paranoia (Harry), pride (Osbourne), vanity (Linda), and stupidity (Chad) are the characters' flaws, how does 13:40 What does Harry's cheating have to do with his paranoia? 13:46 What does Osbourne's engagement with Linda and Chad have to do with his pridefulness? 13:54 What does Chad and Linda's blackmailing have to do with their stupidity and vanity respectively? How is what they're doing stem from their tragic flaws?
Hamlet is Shakespeare's most convoluted play. So many elements in it are inconsistent and open to interpretation. Sometimes, I feel like with Mona Lisa we got an unfinished version of the script -- a draft that Shakespeare meant to do another editing pass on.
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@@StudioBinder best adaptation of hemlet is haider(2014) (imdb rating-8.1) directed by vishal bhardwaj
Always with the spoilerssssss ( 70's Italian NY Italian/Jewish American voice.)
We give a heads up in the beginning
Interesting. In modern Greek, hamartia (αμαρτία) simply means sin, in the religious sense.
Yes that's what it means. It's sin.
If you are true to life, you do not need to concoct.
To flaw or not to flaw 💀
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Hey, if you are going to do a video on a particular literary device (its name repeated over and over in your video), the least you could do is pronounce it properly. HAMARTIA is pronounced huh-MAR-tee-yah, with the accent on the second syllable
Spoilers for - Black Swan - Burn After Reading - The Dark Knight - Frozen - Hamlet - Jurassic Park - There Will Be Blood
The only films referenced here that I've seen are "Burn After Reading" and "Frozen." I am surprised you don't use J. J. Gittes in "Chinatown," one of the best examples of a tragically flawed character I've ever seen. And there is always Scarlett O'Hara.
Plenty of classic examples!
What's Jake's flaw?
@@successsystem2468 He doesn't know when to leave well enough alone, in spite of having already caused a tragedy in Chinatown, in his past.
_House of Games_ was a perfect tragedy, up to a point. For me, it was utterly ruined by a plot twist at the end, which detracted from the protagonist's hamartia. I was infuriated!
ironically, the tragic flaw of this channel is not using the old guys voice
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Homelander from The Boys is a perfect example.
Homelander's fatal flaw is that he's a perfect superhero and a patriot
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The villain almost always has a fatal flaw which leads to their destruction, I’m not sure if he’s an example of a protagonist with a fatal flaw
@@JB-bq2qj Well The Boys doesn't have any protagonists, everyone are antagonists (Butcher, MM and Frenchie are not good guys) Homelander is the driving force of the show, and his need to be loved along with his wants of power gives him two conflicting flaws that will bring his downfall.
@@sagasvensson8920Protagonists and antagonists are not defined by whether they're good guys or bad guys. A protagonist is someone who is trying to succeed in the story, an antagonist is someone who poses an obstacle to the protagonist. It's just most common that we look for a primary character to be "the" protagonist, and it is also most common that they are "the good guy." But it need not be that and only that.
Hamartia is the art of hamming it up, yes?
It's sin. And there's not H.
There's no teks 🥲
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Who disliked this???!?
Games of Thrones plays continuosly with hamartia. Ned Stark want honor and he dies because of that.Oberon was the murderer to confess and he got that. Robert Stark what to put love before politics and he got that.
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M. Night Shyamalan ruined the Avatar series by making all the characters have one trait: the tragic flaw. Just saying because if you want to make a complex character, you have to give him or her more traits, and he decided to include their characters have their one and only tragic flaw.
Pls make your video in Hindi language also
Thanks for the suggestion!
Burn After Reading? Did someone enjoy that atrocity?
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Damn, noted to never read/watch hamlet. What a downer
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You never replied to me I envy everyone in the comment section 😒
Don't see your other comment, what did you say?
Great video- but I miss the British narrator.
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Great comment but an actual person is behind the video so idk just keep it to yourself dude.
Hamlet's fault is not indecision, it is letting his emotions (hate? Hurt pride?) control his actions (and thus the struggle between reason & emotion)
Stop saying Hamartia. Oh look at me I invented a new word. Spread it now!
Um, he didn't invent anything here. It's literally ancient greek, it's in Homers Iliad. Not to mention that it is all over the original texts of the New Testament (being the word for "sin"). An entire branch of christian theology is named "Hamartiology". Look it up.
I think the real tragedy in Hamlet is that bleached hair.
Aristotle used the term "hamartia" exactly once, and it didn't mean "tragic flaw in a person's character" or "work of fate." Hamartia is simply a mistake made by a person who is neither wholly good nor bad. It's a moment of bad judgement.
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My guy...it's pronounced "ha-MAR-shuh"
/həˈmärdēə/