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Tragic flaw is not necessarily a weakness. Its more of a crack. "his inherent unwillingness to remain passive in the face of what he concieves to be a challange to his dignity, his image of his rightful status."

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Tragedy is optimistic because we are able to relate to the tragic hero on a personal level. "We identify ourselves with the tragic sufferer and derive pleasure from feeling ourselves mistreated".

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Moral order has everything to do with the tragic world. "Let us understand the statement that the ultimate power or order is 'moral' to mean than it does not show itself indifferent to good and evil... but shows itself akin to good and alien to evil.

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Often times individuals take pleasure in tragedies due to the emotions and affects it has upon a person. It can be due to a deep sadistic pleasure that is rooted in the contemplation of our peers suffering. Lucretius believes we take pleasure in tragedies, “not because we delight in the pains of others but because it is pleasant to perceive vividly the evils from which we are exempt”.

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Tragedy is

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what does it mean to be a tragic hero? Bradley follows the questioning that there is a certain aspect or characteristics that make up the title "Tragic hero" for example "where we see the hero placed, his tragic trait, which is also his greatness, is fatal to him. to meet these circumstances something is required which a smaller man might have given, but which the hero cannot give. he errs by action or omission, and his error joining with other causes brings him sorrow"

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Arthur Millers main argument was that the tragic hero is similar to the common man. "I believe that the common man is as apt a subject for tragedy in its highest sense as kings were".

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Readers feel the tragedy within the work when the tragic hero faces his fatal flaw and allows morality to take over, which results in his death. “The tragic feeling is evoked in us when we are in the presence of a character who is ready to lay down his life , to secure his personal dignity.” When their tragic flaws provide a life or death situation the tragic hero decides to give his life for his cause.

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Tragedy and the Common Man - Arthur Miller

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Tragedy and the Common Man - Arthur Miller

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Miller talks about the common themes within the aspects of tragedy. such as the common scenario of man is always apt for tragedy and must go through a series of events. the difference in class is usually a common icon that tragedy shows no barrier. for example "When the question of tragedy in art is not an issue, we never hesitate to attribute to the well placed and the exalted the very same mental processes as the lowly"

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The centre of the tragic impression is that of the impression of waste the hero exhibits.  The tragic flaw overtakes the individual and causes his potential to go unused. Instead of using his greatness for power or respect and for moral things he allows his tragic flaw to rule his life and preoccupy his mind, this ultimately causes his demise and the destruction of others. “With Shakespeare, at any rate, the pity and fear which are stirred by the tragic story seem to unite with, and even to merge in, a profound sense of sadness and mystery, which is due to this impression of waste.”

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Tragedy is related to the philosophers of the old generation. It relates back to studies of Plato and Socrates. "Plato and Socrates believed that man is capable of rational choice and that a bad choice is the result of faulty or insufficent thinking.

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A.C Bradley's main arguement was that hero's have common qualities that are essential to their tragic affect. "The hero is a person of high degree of public importance, his actions or sufferings are of an unusual kind".

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Although drama is not philosophy, they both deal with morality.

"When a moralist is disturbed by tragedy, his reaction suggests (even though he may fail to realize it) not that tragedy has nothing to do with morals, but that tragedy implies a different set of ethical assumptions." (General Introduction, 10).

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Bradley talks about the exceptionalities of the tragic hero in regards to social status (regardless of the personal public opinion), strength in virtue, and the grand actions and suffering of the hero. These are what make up the base of every tragic hero in Shakespeare's work.

"We have seen already that the hero, with Shakespeare, is a person of high degree or of public importance, and that his actions or sufferings are of an unusual kind. But this is not all. His nature also is exceptional, and generally raises him in some respect much above the average level of humanity."

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#1- According to Bradley, the tragic hero has: "a predisposition in some particular direction." Meaning, the tragic hero has a tragic flaw which is the cause of his downfall. Eg. Mabeth's "one sidedness" was ambition.
#2- In this essay miller makes the point that the tragic hero can be a common man. This is because the tragic hero is simply any man or woman who struggles to gain his or her rightful place in society: "I believe that the common man is as apt a subject for tragedy in its highest sense as kings were."
#3- In the general introduction the author proposes that tragedy is depenendant on the assumption that each individual life has a value. For example, at the end of a tragedy there is an inherent feeling of waste: of innocent lives and the hero's potential. This occurs because we assumed that each life has meaning: "tragedy's basic assumptions is the value of the individual life."