noun, a flaw in character that brings about the downfall of the hero of a tragedy, tragic flaw
Greed was the hamartia that ultimately brought down the protagonist.
"Hamartia" arose from the Greek verb hamartanein, meaning "to miss the mark" or "to err." Aristotle introduced the term in the Poetics to describe the error of judgment that ultimately brings about he tragic hero's downfall. As you can imagine, the word is most often found in literary criticism. However, news writers occasionally employ the word when discussing the unexplainable misfortune or missteps of celebrities regard as immortal gods and goddesses before being felled by their own shortcomings.
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