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The tragic hero is a character whose misfortune comes unwanted but also by some error of judgment This judgment error inevitably leads to his her own downfall Aristotle has said that A man doesn't become a hero until he can see the root of his own destruction Carli 2015 Most of histories early plays were written as either a tragedy or comedy In tragic plays the unlikely hero will do something that will kill the character Oedipus the main character of the play is a king with ideal tragic hero traits in his personality but his downfall is due to flaws in his moral decisions That makes the reader have the tragic hero feeling at the end of the play when all the good of Oedipus is muddled in his fight against his evilness Oedipus parents had to throw him away the day he was born because it was foretold that he would kill his father and marry his mother He was pitied by the shepherd who was supposed to leave him in the mountains of Cithaeron Instead of dying and out of pity for the baby the shepherd gave him to the shepherd of King Polybus Sophocles
