Aristotle’s Criteria for Finding Nemo

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Aristotle’s Criteria for Finding Nemo Aristotle’s criteria for a literary tragedy and Finding Nemo are a modern example that doesn’t agree with his definition. I’m going to see if the children classic Finding Nemo meets Aristotle’s criteria for a tragedy. Aristotle’s definition for a tragic hero is a man who is noble, who makes a mistake (usually pride) who suffers and accepts his own downfall. The play “Oedipus” by doesn’t fit Aristotle’s criteria for a tragedy because he doesn’t have a tragic flaw he has a virtue. His virtue is compassion because he loved his parent too much so he ran away from them. He didn’t want to kill his father and marry his mother but little did he know he was adopted so him running a away cause his down fall because he ended up killing his actual father and marrying his mother and having kids with her. If Aristotle’s definition could be expanded to where virtue was included then “Oedipus” would be considered a tragedy. If you put virtue into there then the hero wouldn’t have to have a tragic flaw he could have a virtue which is like compassion or sadness because a flaw is like pride or something along those lines. If virtue was included then Finding Nemo would fit his criteria. Nemo’s dad Marlin is the tragic hero but he doesn’t have a flaw he has a virtue which is protection. He’s too protective over nemo because of how his wife died. His downfall is being over the top protective of nemo and telling him to swim out of the reef but nemo is stubborn and wants to prove to his father he can swim. Nemo ends up getting caught by divers which sends his dad on an expect adventure to save
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