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  2. 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 ...

  3. Hamartia (medical term) - Wikipedia

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    A hamartia is a focal malformation consisting of disorganized arrangement of tissue types that are normally present in the anatomical area. [1] [2] A hamartia is not considered to be a tumor, and is distinct from a hamartoma, which describes a benign neoplasm characterized by tissue misarrangement similar to a hamartia (i.e., tissue types that are typical of the area but arranged in an ...

  4. Hamartoma - Wikipedia

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    One of the most troublesome hamartomas occurs on the hypothalamus.Unlike most such growths, a hypothalamic hamartoma is symptomatic; it most often causes gelastic seizures, and can cause visual problems, other seizures, rage disorders associated with hypothalamic diseases, and early onset of puberty.

  5. Tragic hero - Wikipedia

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    Kullervo, a tragic hero from the Karelian and Finnish Kalevala. The influence of the Aristotelian hero extends past classical Greek literary criticism.Greek theater had a direct and profound influence on Roman theater and formed the basis of Western theater, with other tragic heroes including Macbeth in William Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Macbeth, and Othello in his Othello. [4]

  6. Talk:Hamartia - Wikipedia

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    Aristotle’s notion of hamartia here echoes the Greek notion that the good person never knowingly does wrong. Traits, what most mistakenly see as “flaws,” are just traits, examples of what Aristotle meant when he spoke of ethos–the habitual acts of agents which allow us to use short descriptors such as honest, dishonest, good, bad.

  7. Character flaw - Wikipedia

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    In the creation and criticism of fictional works, a character flaw or heroic flaw is a bias, limitation, imperfection, problem, personality disorder, vice, phobia, prejudice, or deficiency present in a character who may be otherwise very functional. The flaw can be a problem that directly affects the character's actions and abilities, such as a ...

  8. Mendelian traits in humans - Wikipedia

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    Autosomal dominant A 50/50 chance of inheritance. Sickle-cell disease is inherited in the autosomal recessive pattern. When both parents have sickle-cell trait (carrier), a child has a 25% chance of sickle-cell disease (red icon), 25% do not carry any sickle-cell alleles (blue icon), and 50% have the heterozygous (carrier) condition. [1]

  9. Category:Christian hamartiology - Wikipedia

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