A tragic hero is a literary character used to evoke sad emotions in the audience. Because of his tragic flaw, this character will make a judgment error causing the character’s excessive downfall or suffering. Three main theories of the tragic hero are the Aristotelian model, the Shakespearean model, and the modern tragic hero. Each model has five defining characteristics, which are nobility, hamartia, downfall, anagnosis, and suffering. In the Shakespearean mode of tragedy, the play Romeo and Juliet best models the tragic hero. For instance, nobility is characterized by being upper class and having elevated character. Romeo satisfies both these criteria through his position as the heir of the highly respected and wealthy Montague family. In …show more content…
After her child, Alexis, is born, she decides to stop modeling and she tried something different. In 1976, she started a catering company and 6 years later she wrote her first book (Ferrell 1). Trying to grow her popularity, she wrote another book with Elizabeth Hawes, titled Entertaining (Moser 2). Later on, Stewart starts a business and retail food store called The Market Basket (Moser 2). “Within ten years, she is earning one million dollars a year” (Wohl 2). As Stewart’s popularity grew, so did her hubris. To continue, Martha Stewart’s life develops as a Greek tragedy because she possessed the fatal flaw of hubris. Her hamartia is that she was too confident that her wealth and social standing would protect her from being looked at as a bad person even when doing bad things. At the peak of Stewart’s career, the billionaire that everyone knew, started to face trouble. In December of 2001, Stewart sold many shares of her stock in ImClone (Moser 3). Everyone knew that it appeared to be illegal, but she claimed that her stockbroker was supposed to sell a portion of her shares when the stock market fell to or below a certain level. “Stewart would have lost more than $45,000 if she had kept her holdings” (Moser