... to "any moral defect or depravity"" (Poetics, 21) given by an author, but to a mistake he makes at a pivotal point in a story. For example, a hero commits a crime not because his character was given an inability to tell right from wrong, but because he freely chooses to do so. ... potentially prevent downfall, and the hero's ability to either act upon or reject this new information constitutes blame for their fall. In Jean Anouilh's Antigone, Creon makes a final plea to convince Antigone that dying for her brother Polynices is foolish, making sure she is aware of the "squalid story " s...

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