... of a story controlled by an author, such as personality, may make the tragic error "understandable ", because the error itself has "no moral content at all", it is still blameworthy"" (Poetics, xxxii). Prior to the change in fortune of a hero, an author reveals information that can potentially prevent ... previous ignorance of the situation was not the cause of her downfall and execution, it was a choice of her own. Similarly, in Oedipus the King, Oedipus is given the chance to learn the truth about his real parents when the blind prophet Tiresias accuses him of being "all unknowing,"" ...

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