According to Andrew Marshall (1998) the New York press called Clinton "Strong at politics, weakened by lapses" (Marshall, 1998). This shows that while Clinton was eminently good, he also had his flaws.
Clinton's character matches the definition of an Aristotelian hero whose downfall is brought about by their own personality flaw. Clinton's downfall was brought about by his own actions and weaknesses and as with many tragic heroes that match Aristotle's theory, pride or hubris is almost always the reason for their downfall. Author, joseph R. Hayden (2001), said in an article that "It should be emphasized that Bill Clinton was no mere victim in all this. Indeed, I think in many ways he bears much of the responsibility" (Hayden, 2001). This statement agrees with Aristotle's theory that the hero of the tragedy, Bill Clinton, causes his own downfall. This pride was also one of Clinton's personality flaws (hamartia) and the reason for his downfall. Clintons pride and sense of invulnerability had caused him a minor downfall once in his past while he was in college. After being elected twice as the president of his freshman and sophomore class respectively, he ran for president of the student council in his junior year and lost drastically because of his pride and belief that he could please everybody.
Again, matching the Aristotelian theory of tragedy, Clintons downfall was brought about by his own actions. Before Clinton began his presidential campaign, he had faced several allegations of "sexual misconduct" and he had considered to not run for president. However, because of his same sense of invulnerability, we went ahead with the campaign. A little while into his presidential campaign in 1992, Clinton was publicly accused of having an extramarital affair with one Gennifer Flowers and Clinton had denied these accusations until Flowers had released videotapes to prove her point.