Oedipus Arrogance

Aristotle once said that “A man doesn’t become a hero until he can see the root of his own downfall.” An Aristotelian tragic hero must possess specific characteristics, such as hamartia, anagnorisis, and the fate is greater than deserved. The hero inspires the audience to feel pity and fear, pity because the hero does not deserve his fate, and fear because anyone could have the hero’s fate. Consequently, in Sophocles's Oedipus The King, Aristotle’s definition of tragedy applies to Oedipus.
Oedipus’s hamartia is arrogance. Fisler states, “Hubris is his flaw; his actions are the result of his excessive pride” (Fisler 1006). Oedipus possesses a tremendous amount of pride. When Oedipus solved the riddle, 20 years prior to becoming king, he gained