![]() ![]() Arthur Miller’s renowned play The Crucible, that takes place throughout the Salem Witch Trials of 1692, is arguably the most forceful allegory of senator Joseph McCarthy’s red scare within the Fifties. That detracts from Miller’s characterization of him as the tragic hero because he fails to experience an anagnorisis. John Proctor’s hubris is responsible for both his tragic downfall and his redemption. His obsession with maintaining his reputable name is one of the manifestations of his fatal flaw, his hubris. Proctor is a very secular man in Puritan Salem, yet is still highly respected among the people. In the Crucible, the protagonist, John Proctor, is considered a tragic hero. The character is taken into account a hero once they rise from their fall and experience an enlightenment and redemption referred to as an anagnorisis. He outlined the tragic hero as a person of noble birth who encompasses a fatal flaw, or hamartia, that results in his downfall and describes his tragic nature. Aristotle primarily based his tragic hero model on Oedipus, a king from Greek mythology. ![]() The renowned philosopher Aristotle formally outlined the parameters of the tragic hero in his work “On Poetics”. ![]()
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