Aristotle also cites that hamartia was done by the tragic hero unintentionally and he must pay a great punishment for doing so. .
Percy Jackson, through the plot if the series, meets this criteria of a tragic hero with his own hamartia. In ancient Greek's mythology, hamartia is a matter which always included in a hero. Percy Jackson is also equipped by this feature, according to Athena in the third book, Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Titan's Curse his hamartia is excessive personal loyalty. It can be seen easily when he offers himself to leave behind in Hades' palace in order to save his mother and friends. In short, Percy Jackson and the Olympians, a best-selling fantasy-adventure series for young adult readers, is a suitable work of literature to be analyzed since this is a modern-form of ancient Greek's mythology which includes hamartia as a supproting material in the series. Furthermore, in researcher's point of view, as the concept of tragedy and an ideal hero suggested by Aristotle is has deep connection with hamartia, the present writer is going to observe the hamartia of Percy Jackson's character and how it has effects toward the development of the story. .
1.2 Objective of the Study.
The objectives of the study are:.
to learn about hamartia from Riordan's prespective through his works named Percy Jackson and the Olympians series.
to find out the effect of hamartia in Percy Jackson and the Olympians series towards the development of the story.
1.3 Focus of Examination.
In line wih the objectives of this paper, the focus of examination would be the intrinsic element of the story (the plot and character) of the pentalogy novel Percy Jackson and the Olympians series. It focuses to analyze the effect of hamartia of the main character of the series, Perseus 'Percy' Jackson, towards the development of the story by using Objective approach.
1.4 Scope of the Study.
In accordance with objective of the study, the scope of the study covers the hamartia of the main character and its connection and significance towards the plot of the series.