miker wrote:
"There was a comment by an old lady in one of Hunter's
novels, POINT OF IMPACT I think, where she says that
something that happened was tragedy, not melodrama. She
differentiates between the two by saying that the
protagonist's downfall in a tragedy is caused by his virtues.
Is that right? I've never heard it put that way
before."
As I recall from my long ago lit classes, it was a "fatal
flaw" that brought about the hero's fall, not virtue. It was
often (usually? always?) a varation on one of the seven deady
sins: pride, greed, etc.
Mark
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