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Peripeteia vs Hamartia - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between peripeteia and hamartia

is that peripeteia is a sudden reversal of fortune as a plot point in Classical tragedy; hence, any sudden change in circumstances; a crisis while hamartia is the tragic flaw of the protagonist in a literary tragedy.

peripeteia

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Noun

  • A sudden reversal of fortune as a plot point in Classical tragedy; hence, any sudden change in circumstances; a crisis.
  • *1965 , (John Fowles), The Magus :
  • *:Once more I was a man in a myth, incapable of understanding it, but somehow aware that understanding it meant it must continue, however sinister its peripeteia .
  • *1977 , (Alistair Horne), A Savage War of Peace , New York Review books 2006, p. 167:
  • *:They were to bestride the Algerian scene like demigods until the tragic peripeteia of 1961 [...].
  • (psychoanalysis)

    • hamartia

    English

    Noun

    (head)
  • The tragic flaw of the protagonist in a literary tragedy.
    • main and foremost hamartia was his excessive pride.
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  • (Christian theology ): sin

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