Free Hamlet Essays: No Tragic Flaw in Hamlet :: The Tragedy of Hamlet Essays

No Tragic Flaw in crossroads   It was my observation after education crossroads, that the play and its main timbre are not typical examples of tragedy and contain a funny tragic smirch in the tragic belligerent. I chose this topic because hamlet is a tragedy, but one(a) that is very different from classical tragedies such(prenominal) as Medea. I also found quite a portion of controversial debate over the play and its leading character. While reading through my notes, I found that, according to Aristotle, the tragic hero give most effectively evoke both our pity and terror if he is neither thoroughly good nor evil but a concoction of both and also that the tragic effect will be stronger if the hero is better than we are in the sense that he is of higher than commonplace moral worth. Such a man is exhibited as suffering a change in fortune from happiness to misery because of a put on act, to which he is led by his hamartia (error of judgment) or his tragic flaw. It is important that this be clear, because I plan to demonstrate how Shakespeare makes Hamlet an atypical tragedy to begin with, and how controversial an issue Hamlets tragic flaw is.   Shakespeares Hamlet is an atypical play to begin with, because the plays format doesnt conform to handed-down Aristotelian concepts of the 3 unities. Shakespeare does not conform to unity of time, place, or action. Hamlet contains a play within a play, sub-plots, and its action is not mint in one day, but several. According to Aristotle, the play should be one day long. There are also a number of comedic moments. Humor, as Aristotle would have it, would reduce the impact of tragedy. Un wish Medea and Oedipus, which contain virtually no humor whatsoever, the play Hamlet has several comedic moments. The last difference I could find is the acme of the character. In the older plays such as Oedipus, the heroes are primarily kings. Hamlet on the other hand is a prince his stature is starting step forwa rd smaller than normal.   While reading Hamlet, I came to the coating that even though this is a tragedy, the heros supposed flaw is not like those in classical tragedies. To the best of my knowledge, the flaw that I could pick out that best fit Hamlet was sloth . . . as well as the critics themselves.