“Ismene, dear sister, You think that we had suffered enough For the curse on Oedipus I cannot imagine any grief That you and I have not gone through” (693,1-5) A tragic hero is a literary character who makes a judgment error that inevitably leads to his/her own destruction. The characteristics that displays a tragic hero according to Aristotle are nobility, reversal of fortune (Peripeteia), and suffering. The tragic hero is a man of noble stature. He is not an ordinary man, but a man with outstanding quality and greatness about him. A tragic hero has a sudden change of events or reversal of circumstances. His life may go high to low or vice versa. A tragic hero undergoes or feels pain or distress. He suffers more than he deserves. The play
