Tragedy

Question 1

What are the three components of a tragedy?

Answer 1

1. Elements of Tragedy
2. Tragic Hero
3. Tragic Flaw

Question 2

What are the three elements of tragedy?

Answer 2

1. Serious and important plot.
2. Turns out disastrously for the main character.
3. Should arouse pity and fear in the audience.

Question 3

What is a tragic hero?

Answer 3

1. Neither an all good nor all bad person.
2. “Better than we are” (higher moral worth)
3. Suffers a change in fortune (from happiness to misery)

Question 4

What is a tragic flaw?

Answer 4

1. Error in judgement
2. Disregards a warning or moral law (hubris)
3. We can recognize similar errors in our own lives.

Question 5

What is the first element of a tragedy?

Answer 5

Serious and important plot.

Question 6

What is the second element of a tragedy?

Answer 6

Turns out disastrously for the main character.

Question 7

What is the third element of a tragedy?

Answer 7

Should arouse pity and fear in the audience.

Question 8

What is the first point under “tragic hero”?

Answer 8

Neither an all good nor all bad person.

Question 9

What is the second point under “tragic hero”?

Answer 9

“Better than we are” (higher moral worth)

Question 10

What is the third point under “tragic hero”?

Answer 10

Suffers a change in fortune (from happiness to misery)

Question 11

What is the first point under “tragic flaw”?

Answer 11

Error in judgement.

Question 12

What is the second point under “tragic flaw”?

Answer 12

Disregards a warning or moral law (hubris)

Question 13

What is the third point under “tragic flaw”?

Answer 13

We can recognize similar errors in our own lives.