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  2. Character flaw - Wikipedia

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    The flaw can be a problem that directly affects the character's actions and abilities, such as a violent temper. Alternatively, it can be a simple foible or personality defect, which affects the character's motives and social interactions, but little else. Flaws can add complexity, depth and humanity to the characters in a narrative.

  3. Hamartia - Wikipedia

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    Poetic justice describes an obligation of the dramatic poet, along with philosophers and priests, to see that their work promotes moral behavior. [10] 18th-century French dramatic style honored that obligation with the use of hamartia as a vice to be punished [10] [11] Phèdre, Racine's adaptation of Euripides' Hippolytus, is an example of French Neoclassical use of hamartia as a means of ...

  4. Mary Sue - Wikipedia

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    A Mary Sue is a common type of Literary Archetype, usually a young woman, who is portrayed as unrealistically free of weaknesses or character flaws. [1] The term "Mary Sue" is sometimes applied pejoratively to exceptionally strong female heroines considered to be unrealistically capable, both in fan fiction and in commercially published fiction.

  5. Purity in Buddhism - Wikipedia

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    Theravada Buddhism regards the path of self-purification as absolutely vital for reaching Nibbana.The main task of the Theravada Buddhist monk is to eradicate flaws in morality and character through meditation and moral cultivation, in alliance with the cultivation of insight or wisdom (), so that the purity of Nibbana can be achieved.

  6. Moral Injury: The Grunts - The Huffington Post

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    Can we imagine ourselves back on that awful day in the summer of 2010, in the hot firefight that went on for nine hours? Men frenzied with exhaustion and reckless exuberance, eyes and throats burning from dust and smoke, in a battle that erupted after Taliban insurgents castrated a young boy in the village, knowing his family would summon nearby Marines for help and the Marines would come ...

  7. Moral character - Wikipedia

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    Moral character or character (derived from charaktêr) is an analysis of an individual's steady moral qualities. The concept of character can express a variety of attributes, including the presence or lack of virtues such as empathy , courage , fortitude , honesty , and loyalty , or of good behaviors or habits ; these attributes are also a part ...

  8. Everett gives intelligence, humor and heart to a character readers thought they knew. The protagonist of "James" is so much more than "Jim" of Mark Twain's time: he dreams of philosophers, yearns ...

  9. Personality disorder - Wikipedia

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    Personality disorder, unspecified (includes "character neurosis" and "pathological personality"). Mixed and other personality disorders (defined as conditions that are often troublesome but do not demonstrate the specific pattern of symptoms in the named disorders).