Using two or three appropriate examples, explain the actual nature or Hybris and Hamartia
The most common definition of tragic hamartia is "tragic flaw". To explain it in a better way, hamartia basically means no matter where you go, you cannot escape your own personality. there are elements of ourselves from which we simply cannot escape. One good example of this is that we can look at the story of Odysseus and the Cyclops. This story takes place 10 years after the fighting against Troy. It starts off with Odysseus and his men finding a large cave. Odysseus and his men entered the cave, in this cave they found food and drinks that were in baskets all in the cave. Odysseus and his men began to eat and drink the food and then fell asleep.…show more content… Then, they pushed the red-hot point into the eye of Polyphemus. The Cyclops screamed and woke up shouting. But he was now blind. The other Cyclops who lived on the island came running, but when they asked Polyphemus who had done this to him, he replied “No man!” and the other Cyclops all returned home laughing thinking it was a joke.
Early the next morning, Odysseus and his men tied themselves to the belly of one of the giant sheep. When Polyphemus awoke and led the sheep out of the cave, he felt the back of each sheep to make sure no one was on them. Thus, feeling nothing, Polyphemus allowed each sheep to pass out of the cave, carrying with it one of Odysseus’ crew tied to its belly.
Odysseus and his men ran back to their ship and hurriedly pushed their boat out to sea. As they sailed away from the harbor, Odysseus now was proud after beating the Cyclops and started to called out to him, laughing at him and telling him that it was not "No Man", but he, Odysseus, who had blinded him and fooled him. Odysseus men asked Odysseus to stop before he threw a bolder at their ship. But Odysseus kept on laughing. But unknowingly Polyphemus’s father was Poseidon. So, Polyphemus called out to his father to make sure that on their voyage home they would encounter heavy storms that would cost all the lives of Odysseus men. If Odysseus never told the cyclops his real name,
