Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 13 AIL 1249 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Trap: The Tragic Flaw as a Vice
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The idea
The glossary is careful that hamartia is often a blindness arising from a strength. Options naming an ordinary vice, greed or cruelty, are usually weaker than options naming a misperception. Read the flaw as an error of seeing before reading it as a moral failing.
In practice
An error of seeing, not a vice.
Where people slip
The glossary's own emphasis.
Your place on the trail
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