... part of the plot of tragedy, in which the protagonist's recognition of his tragic flaw occurs at the climax and leads to his downfall. The best-known example occurs in Sophocles' Oedipus Rex when Oedipus discovers that he has unknowingly killed his father and married his mother. Also can be seen in Shakespeare" Othello when Othello has wrongly killed his beloved ... ...

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