Blame is defined as assigning the responsibility for a fault or wrong. In most literary tragedies, the hero is to blame for the tragic fall he or she undergoes. The responsibility for downfall is clear through analysis of a hero's free-willed actions, state of ignorance, and tragic nature. Aristotle assigns the blame of a downfall in a tragedy to the hero based on a mistake he or she makes ... while exercising free will. Aristotle's description of this tragic error, ... chosen death"" (48), proving that her previous ignorance of the situation was not the cause of her downfall and execution, ...

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