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"Good people... are good because they've come to wisdom through failure"?
I understand this quote, but i have trouble finding things that support it, specifically in Macbeth and The Picture of Dorian Gray. i found one example that supports this quote in each book, but i need two.
what are some examples in these books that support this quote?
2 Answers
- Mr. SmartypantsLv 71 decade agoFavorite Answer
Every real -tragedy- is about someone who comes to wisdom through failure. The hero is a basically good man but he has a 'tragic flaw', usually hubris. In the end he suffers a terrible punishment (usually he dies, but not always) but in the process he overcomes the flaw. Oedipus, for instance. Hamlet. Sidney Carton in A Tale of Two Cities. Those are the rules for tragic heroes set down by Aristotle in the 5th century BC.
- PaulaLv 71 decade ago
It is a simple quote.
We learn from our mistakes.
Well at least we aught to learn, coz if we don't learn, then we may keep on making the same errors.
But we do learn, and so we become wiser.
