What this is all about...
This site is designed to help people interested in furthering their education about William Shakespeare and some of his plays. In one of my classes we read seven of Shakespeare's plays and analyzed all of them. We talked about the tragic elements of Shakespeare's plays. The tragic elements we talked about the most were tragic flaws and how they led to acts of hamartia. For those that do not know, a tragic flaw is just as it sounds, a flaw that is tragic, examples of this are pride, jealousy, and ignorance. In some cases these things can be good, but in the case of these Shakespeare characters they are tragic. Hamartia is not a characteristic that someone has it is an error in action that they make, like someone not studying for an exam and then later on they fail what ever class they had that exam in. In Shakespeare's plays that person with the most tragic flaws and the ones that make to errors in actions are generally title characters. One of the first things that I learned in my class that if you are reading one of Shakespeare's plays and it one of his tragedies, the person who the book is names after is most likely going to die.